Nick Heinz
Home Town: Holdingford, MN
General Orders No. No. 128, W.D., 1918
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Nick Heinz, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Vilcey, France, September 12, 1918. Assisted by another soldier he outflanked a German machine-gun nest, killed the gunner and captured the gun. Although painfully wounded in both arms, he stayed with the gun until he was relieved 12 hours later.
