Louis Cecilia
Home Town: Chicago, IL
General Orders No. 37, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Louis Cecilia, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Consenvoye, France, October 8, 1918. While his company was being held up by machine-gun fire Private Cecilia crawled to a point within 10 yards of the nest and bombed out the enemy, where they came under fire from our guns and were killed. During the exploit Private Cecilia was wounded by enemy bombs.
