Samuel F. Gilliland
Home Town: South Boston, VA
General Orders No. 46, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Samuel F. Gilliland, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Laneuville, France, November 9 – 10, 1918. Private First Class Gilliland made repeated trips over a road which was under continuous shell fire, he being the only driver who would risk driving over this road. On one trip his ambulance was struck by a shell, which wounded him, killed one of his patients, and caused fresh wounds to several others, but he continued on duty, evacuating the wounded of his own and other organizations.
