Earl R. Siner
Home Town: Pawtucket, RI
General Orders 89, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Earl R. Siner, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Thiaucourt, France, September 26, 1918. While his company was on outpost duty, Private Siner crawled out from a trench under heavy enemy fire to rescue a wounded comrade and was instantly killed by a bursting shell just as he had reached the wounded man.