Stephen R. Faatz
Home Town: Milwaukee, WI
General Orders No. No. 147, W.D., 1918
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Stephen R. Faatz, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near St. Gilles, south of Fismes, France, August 4, 1918. When the men of his battery position had been ordered to shelter on account of enemy shelling, Private Faatz, in company with two other men, rescued a French soldier from drowning in a stream. The act was performed while the valley was filled with mustard gas.
