Jack D. Gehris

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Jack D. Gehris, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Binarville, France, October 2 and 5, 1918. Under a heavy enemy barrage Private Gehris went to the rescue of two severely wounded men and carried them to a place offering scant shelter, where they were forced to remain until aid arrived the next morning. On October 5, 1918, when a shell struck his first-aid station, lulling two and wounding five others, he, although wounded, administered first aid to his comrades before receiving medical attention for himself.