Grover P. Heinzmann
Home Town: Passaic, NJ
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 32, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Grover P. Heinzmann, First Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Verdun, France, October 12, 1918. After having seen several of his men killed or wounded in an attempt to deliver a message through a heavily shelled area, Lieutenant Heinzmann volunteered and carried the dispatch to its objective, then offering to return through the same barrage, on any mission required by his battalion commander.