Ludwig Genrich
Home Town: South Bend, IN
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders 81, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Ludwig Genrich, Mechanic, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at Clery- le-Petit, France, November 6, 1918. His company having been held up by enemy machine-gun fire, Mechanic Genrich, with his platoon leader and another soldier, attacked a machine-gun nest, killing two of the crew and capturing eight prisoners, thereby permitting the company to advance and establish a bridgehead.