Clarence E. Allen
Home Town: Salt Lake City, UT
General Orders 64, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Clarence E. Allen, First Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Crezancy, France, July 15, 1918. Lieutenant Allen displayed exceptional courage, bravery and self- sacrifice by moving about the woods in which his platoon was quartered during a heavy bombardment, placing his men in safe dug-puts and rendering aid to wounded men under an intense shelling of high explosives and gas shells. He was killed while in the execution of this mission.
