Frank A. Heueisen
Home Town: Great Bend, KS
General Orders No. 20, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Frank A. Heueisen, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Montrebeau Woods, France, September 29, 1918. When his company was checked and forced to withdraw into the woods, Sergeant Heueisen voluntarily went into an open field under heavy machine-gun fire and carried wounded soldiers a hundred yards to shelter, preventing their capture by the enemy.