Frank Y. Hill
Home Town: Sparta, TN
General Orders No. 50, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Frank Y. Hill, First Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Geneve, France, October 8, 1918. Lieutenant Hill was wounded by shell fire while he was leading his men forward, but he nevertheless continued in the attack until his men were stopped by intense machine-gun fire and forced to take cover in shell holes. Voluntarily leaving shelter, he thereupon started back to obtain reinforcements, and after going only a short distance was seriously wounded in three places by machine-gun fire.
