Manuel Simas
Home Town: San Jose, CA
General Orders No. 46, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Manuel Simas, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Eclisfontaine, France, September 28, 1918. After being wounded by a machine-gun bullet, early in the afternoon, Private Simas remained in action and without making his wound known, willingly offered and held a very dangerous outpost until late the next morning, when he was ordered to the hospital.
