Leslie Allen
Home Town: Hawthorne, CA
General Orders No. 37, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Leslie Allen, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Eclisfontaine, France, September 28, 1918. Responding to a call for volunteers, Corporal Allen, with five others, advanced 400 yards beyond their front to bring in wounded comrades. They succeeded in rescuing seven of their men and also in bringing in the dead body of a lieutenant while exposed to terrific machine-gun fire.
