Jack H. Wilkinson
Home Town: New York, NY
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 20, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Jack H. Wilkinson, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Ronssoy, France, September 29, 1918. During the operations against the Hindenburg line Private Wilkinson left shelter and went forward, crawling on his hands and knees, under heavy machine-gun fire, to the aid of a wounded officer and a wounded soldier. With the assistance of another soldier he succeeded in dragging and carrying them back to the shelter of a trench.