George J. Fries, Jr.
Home Town: Carrick, PA
General Orders No. 35, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to George J. Fries, Jr., Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Cunel, France, October 11, 1918. For two days and nights Private Fries worked incessantly as the only first-aid man with two companies in the front line. On several occasions he went out in front of our lines under heavy enemy fire, to aid wounded men and to help bring them back to our line, his pack and equipment being badly torn by pieces of shrapnel.
