George I. Cargin
Home Town: Stalker, PA
General Orders No. 20, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to George I. Cargin, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Ronssoy, France, September 29, 1918. During the operations against the Hindenburg line, Private Cargin, with four other soldiers, left shelter and went forward into an open field, under heavy shell and machine-gun fire, and succeeded in bandaging and carrying back to our lines two wounded comrades.
