Fred A. Cook
Home Town: Post Mills, VT
General Orders No. 37, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Fred A. Cook, Major, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near St. Etienne-a-Arnes, France, October 3 – 9, 1918. Major Cook led his battalion in an attack, although exposed to machine-gun fire from both flanks and front, steadying and encouraging his men by his fearless example. He was instantly killed while directing the reduction of a strongly entrenched machine-gun position.
