Orrie A. Clark

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Orrie A. Clark, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Fismes, France, September 5, 1918. Private Clark volunteered and carried a message from his platoon commander to a squad leader, through continuous shell and machine-gun fire, and was thereby the means of saving the lives of six men of the squad.

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Orrie A. Clark, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action on Hill 273 in the Forest of Argonne, France, October 5, 1918. When an officer called for volunteers to cut an opening in a thick barbed wire entanglement, Private Clark unhesitatingly responded and under the enemy’s rifle fire and cross fire from two machine-guns, worked for more than an hour at cutting the wire, desisting only when ordered to do so by his officers. He then returned to his organization through the enemy’s artillery barrage.