Frank Albert Burroughs

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Frank Albert Burroughs, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near la-Haie-Menneresse, France, October 17, 1918. When his platoon commander was wounded and all the noncommissioned officers had become casualties, under a heavy enemy barrage which fell upon his company, killing or wounding more than a third of the men, Sergeant Burroughs, then a private, reorganized the platoon under the heavy shell fire, directed the evacuation of the wounded, and then led the one remaining gun team forward, displaying remarkable coolness and initiative.