William Y. Allen
Home Town: Atlanta, GA
General Orders No. 21, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to William Y. Allen, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Medeah Ferme, France, October 3, 1918. Private Allen, together with four other men, charged a machine-gun nest containing three heavy machine guns and captured the three guns and twenty prisoners.
