Ernest H. Anderson
Home Town: Anaconda, MT
Status: KIA
General Orders No. 44, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Ernest H. Anderson, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Moulin de Guenoville, France, September 26, 1918. Private Anderson, with three other soldiers, advanced nearly 200 yards over an open hillside exposed to machine-gun fire and carried two wounded men to the protection of a nearby trench. Private Anderson has since been killed in action.
