Frank M. Ford
Home Town: Covington, KY
General Orders No. No. 108, W.D., 1918
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Frank M. Ford, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action northeast of Chateau-Thierry, France, July 27, 1918. After he and a comrade had located a hostile machine gun in a clump of trees 500 meters north of a chateau which their platoon was holding east of Fere-en-Tardenis, they secured permission of their platoon commander to attempt to force the enemy to abandon this position, and advanced over open ground and in the face of fire. With their rifles they drove the enemy from their gun, killing one and wounding another.
