Elmo Cornell
Home Town: Harbor Springs, MI
General Orders No. No. 132, W.D., 1918
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Elmo Cornell, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Soissons, France, July 19, 1918. Corporal Cornell led an automatic rifle squad until all his men had been killed or wounded, and then alone, from a farther advanced position, silenced the machine gun which had decimated his command.
