Joseph Sauer
Home Town: New York, NY
General Orders No. 35, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Joseph Sauer, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Binarville, France, October 2, 1918. Corporal Sauer volunteered, in the face of heavy enemy machine-gun fire, to deliver a message to a platoon sergeant who was leading an attack on enemy machine-gun nests. He was wounded in one leg just as he started and was wounded in the other leg before reaching the sergeant, but did, by calling aloud, deliver the message verbally and accurately.
