Joseph F. Helmore
Home Town: Elsie, MI
General Orders 87, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Joseph F. Helmore, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action northeast of Chateau-Thierry, France, July 31, 1918. Through heavy machine-gun fire and artillery barrage fire, Private Helmore, with another man, dragged a wounded comrade from within one hundred feet of the enemy lines to his own lines, a distance of 150 yards.
