Hobart M. Bird
Home Town: Portland, OR
General Orders No. 46, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Hobart M. Bird, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near St. Gilles, France, August 12, 1918. After being painfully wounded by an exploding shell, Sergeant Bird, with no thought of his own wound, assisted a more severely wound comrade to the first- aid station and then walked a distance of 1 and 1/2 kilometers over a heavily shelled road in quest of ambulance and stretchers.
