Erskine Gordon
Home Town: Washington, DC
General Orders 7, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Erskine Gordon, Captain, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Gercourt, France, September 26 – 27, 1918. After the assaulting companies had passed over three machine- gun nests, which., not having been destroyed, opened heavy and effective fire, Captain Gordon reorganized scattered elements of his own company and of two others and fearlessly exposing himself to the fire of these guns as well as that of our own artillery, personally led an attack on three nests, capturing them with 50 prisoners.
