Harry Hillig
Home Town: Carrollton, IL
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 44, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Harry Hillig, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Bellicourt, France, September 29, 1918. Although he had been seriously wounded in the neck by a machine-gun bullet, Private Hillig refused to go to the rear, and continued in the advance until he was killed several hours later.