Werner Eich
Home Town: Mount Washington, OH
General Orders No. 44, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Werner Eich, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Sedan, France, November 7, 1918. Private Eich was a member of a patrol sent put to silence machine-gun nests which were holding up the battalion’s advance. When the officer leading the patrol fell mortally wounded, this soldier went to his assistance in the face of heavy fire from machine guns only 100 yards away, three other soldiers being killed in similar attempts.
