Silas J. Johnson
Home Town: Northfield, MN
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 44, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Silas J. Johnson, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action in the Puvenelle Sector, France, November 3, 1918. When the company to which he was attached withdrew from their position and the medical personnel was ordered to find a place of safety, Sergeant Johnson refused to leave the wounded. He carried a seriously wounded officer one and a half kilometers through a heavy artillery barrage to the battalion aid station.