Oliver Marquis
Home Town: Poseyville, IN
General Orders 78, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Oliver Marquis, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Sedan, France, November 7, 1918. Private Marquis was a member of a patrol sent out to silence machine-gun nests, which were holding up the battalion’s advance. When the officer leading the patrol fell mortally wounded, this soldier attempted to go to the officer’s assistance despite heavy fire from machine guns only 100 yards away, and was himself killed.
