Daniel B. Carroll
Home Town: Santa Cruz, CA
General Orders No. No. 39, W.D., 1920
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Daniel B. Carroll, First Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Bois-de-Cheppy, France, September 28, 1918. Although wounded in the arm in the attack of September 26, Lieutenant Carroll gallantly led his platoon forward, under heavy artillery and machine-gun fire, through the Bois-de-Cheppy. Later, while leading his platoon in an attack near Neuve Grange Farm, he continued on until severely wounded a second time.