Ward M. Ackley
Home Town: Portland, OR
General Orders No. 44, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Ward M. Ackley, First Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Very, France, September 27th, 1918. Exposing himself to heavy machine-gun and artillery fire in leading his platoon forward, First Lieutenant Ackley (then a lieutenant) himself captured a machine-gun nest, killing seven of the enemy with, his automatic pistol.
