George Decaire
Home Town: Baltic, MI
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 46, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to George Decaire, Bugler, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near the Ourcq River, France, July 31, 1918. Bugler Decaire, acting as runner to battalion headquarters, continued in the advance and performed his duties under extremely heavy shell and machine-gun fare after he had been very severely wounded in the knee.