Geoffrey P. Baldwin
Home Town: Battle Creek, MI
General Orders No. No. 22, W.D., 1920
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Geoffrey P. Baldwin, Major, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action in the Bois-des- Rappes, France, October 15, 1918. Major Baldwin personally led his small detachment through woods that were infested with machine-gun nests and attained his objective on the northern edge of the Bois-des-Rappes and held same regardless of the danger due to his position in advance of the line and being enveloped by the enemy on both flanks. In utter disregard of his own life, he personally charged a machine-gun nest and killed the gunner.
