Elmer J. Kilcher

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Elmer J. Kilcher, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at Fresnes-en-Woerve, France, November 10, 1918. Private Kilcher voluntarily returned through the enemy’s barrage after a raid to rescue another soldier who had been wounded and was himself wounded as a result of his self-sacrificing effort.