Thomas Hopkins
Home Town: Wichita, KS
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. No. 126, W.D., 1918
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Thomas Hopkins, Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at Wesserling, France, July 20, 1918. Second Lieutenant Hopkins left his own post of comparative safety and voluntarily went through a heavy artillery barrage to rescue a private who was wounded and entangled in barbed wire. While engaged in this self- sacrificing effort he was killed.