Leonard Anderson
Home Town: Hillsboro, TN
General Orders 81, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Leonard Anderson, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Premont, France, October 8, 1918. Wounded by shell fire, Corporal Anderson led an automatic rifle team forward under intense enemy fire, to knock out an enemy machine- gun position which had held up the advance of his company. He refused to be evacuated until the final objective had been reached.
