Gus Bordkas
Home Town: Kansas City, MO
General Orders No. 44, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Gus Bordkas, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Barricourt, France, November 1, 1918. Private Bordkas showed great bravery and extraordinary heroism by dressing and evacuating the wounded under a terrific shell fire. While advancing with the front echelon he saw a comrade fall when a withering machine- gun fire was encountered, and without hesitation ran to his rescue, carrying the wounded man to the shelter of a shell hole.
