Frederick D. Sill

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Frederick D. Sill, First Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Panchaux and Geneve, France, October 8, 1918. Lieutenant Sill performed the difficult task of laying the tape for the jumping-off line and also for the support line on the night preceding the attack of October 8. Despite the fact that one battalion bad changed its line on the 7th and that he had to face a continuous fire of artillery, trench mortars, and machine-guns, he performed a mission which would have been extremely difficult even under normal conditions. While returning to headquarters, Lieutenant Sill carried his wounded orderly through a heavy barrage of machine-gun and artillery fire until assistance could be procured.