Harold J. Drotning
Home Town: Milwaukee, WI
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 21, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Harold J. Drotning, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near St. Gilles, south of Fismes, France, August 4, 1918. When the men of his battery position had been ordered to shelter on account of enemy shelling, Private Drotning, in company with two other men, rescued a French soldier from drowning in a stream. This act was performed while the valley was filled with mustard gas.