Oliver Wendell Holmes
Home Town: Hastings, NE
General Orders No. No. 28, W.D., 1921
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Limey, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Limey, France, September 12, 1918. Seeing his lieutenant fall severely wounded, Private Holmes, with another stretcher bearer, rushed through heavy machine-gun fire to his assistance. When they had placed the lieutenant on their stretcher and were endeavoring to go through the heavy fire to the dressing station, Private Holmes fell mortally wounded.
