Louis Cappadocia
Home Town: New York, NY
General Orders No. No. 19, W.D., 1920
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Louis Cappadocia, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Moulins, France, July 15, 1918. Sergeant Cappadocia led his platoon successfully against enemy machine guns that were harassing the company from the flank. After being wounded in the chin by a machine-gun bullet he refused to be evacuated and went forward with his platoon in the counterattack.
