Lester L. Pratt

Lieutenant Commander (MC): For gallantry in action while serving as a Medical Officer with the 5th Marines, 2d Division, A.E.F., on June 11, 1918 at Belleau Wood, France

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Lester L. Pratt, Passed Assistant Surgeon, U.S. Navy, for extraordinary heroism in action in the Bois-de-Belleau, France, June 11, 1918. Although he had been wounded under the left eye, almost blinded by gas fumes, and his dressing station wrecked by shell fire, Surgeon Pratt remained at his post working under the most trying conditions until all the wounded had been safely evacuated.