Herbert A. Abele
Home Town: Memphis, TN
General Orders No. 32, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Herbert A. Abele, First Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Ville-en-Woevre, France, November 9, 1918. Lieutenant Abele voluntarily went through an intense machine-gun barrage at great personal risk in order to rescue a wounded soldier.
