Harry E. Hoppe
Home Town: Baltimore, MD
General Orders No. 7, W.D., 1925
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Harry E. Hoppe, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Gildwiller, Alsace, on July 31, 1918. Sergeant Hoppe displayed extraordinary heroism, presence of mind, and physical endurance during an enemy raid against his small advance post near Gildwiller, in Alsace, on July 31, 1918. Although seriously wounded from grenades, he and one private from his company counterattacked a greatly superior enemy, personally killing at least one of them with his rifle, preventing any entry by the enemy into his post, and finally reentering our lines after having received a second severe wound.
