Victor A. Cleveland
Home Town: Louisville, IL
General Orders No. 20, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Victor A. Cleveland, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action in the Bois-de-Chaume, France, October 12, 1918. Corporal Cleveland led a detail to the rescue of an officer who had been caught in the heavy barrage of gas and high- explosive shells and seriously wounded. In his efforts to get the wounded officer to an aid station this courageous soldier was killed.
