Eugene F. Saunders

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Eugene F. Saunders, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Bois-de-Consenvoye, France, October 8, 1918. Private Saunders carried a wounded comrade through a terrific machine-gun and artillery barrage to a place of safety and thereby saved his life, although risking his own in the exploit.