Victor Stier
Home Town: Detroit, MI
General Orders No. No. 16, W.D., 1920
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Victor Stier, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at Nijnigora, Russia, January 19, 1919. When his detachment was almost surrounded, Private Stier went forward to a machine-gun position and opened fire on the enemy, checking their advance and allowing his comrades to withdraw. He was wounded in the jaw with a rifle bullet. He continued to fire at the enemy until ordered to the rear. He then, while under direct fire, dismantled his gun, and while going to the secondary position he received a second wound, which caused his death.
