Frederick R. Cushing
Home Town: Roxbury, MA
General Orders No. 31, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Frederick R. Cushing, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Exermont, France, October 4, 1918. Sergeant Gushing volunteered and took his place and gun squad forward to the infantry front lines, where he was subjected to violent bombardment. He refused to take shelter until nearly all his horses and three of his men were wounded, and then left shelter no less than five times to rescue wounded comrades, this being done under a heavy barrage.
