Louis T. Day
Home Town: Somerville, MA
General Orders No. No. 49, W.D., 1922
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Louis T. Day, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at Apremont, France, May 20, 1918. Displaying remarkable coolness and courage, Sergeant Day volunteered and with one other man, at about midnight and under a heavy enemy artillery and machine-gun fire crawled through and over several wire entanglements to a point well within the hostile machine-gun outpost line, where they cut several meters from the armored cable which supplied electric current to the enemy’s wire entanglements which were an impediment and danger to our reconnoitering patrols.
