John Henry Gill
Home Town: Henderson, NC
General Orders No. 37, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to John Henry Gill, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Bellicourt, France, September 29, 1918. After being twice wounded during the attack, Sergeant Gill, with his trench-mortar section men, who had become lost from other companies, and stragglers, attacked a strong machine-gun position at the junction of the tunnel and canal and was wounded the third time. During the attack he was wounded in 13 places by machine-gun bullets and shrapnel, but continued the attack with the utmost coolness and bravery.
