Ernest S. Savage
Home Town: Council, NC
General Orders No. 32, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Ernest S. Savage, First Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Grimaucourt, France, November 11, 1918. Although so sick from gas that he could hardly move and vomiting heavily into his gas mask, Lieutenant Savage successfully conducted the fire of his machine-gun platoon in the face of heavy shrapnel, gas, and machine-gun fire. He received no medical attention until late in the afternoon after the attack was over.
