Nathaniel Watson Ellis

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Nathaniel Watson Ellis, First Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Montbrehain, France, October 7, 1918. When his company was held up by sweeping machine-gun fire, Lieutenant Ellis rushed forward alone, in the face of direct machine-gun fire, to an enemy machine-gun nest 60 yards in advance of his platoon and by the effective use of his pistol killed five of the enemy and captured 26 prisoners, together with the machine-gun. Although he had been seriously wounded in two places while advancing, he held the position until his platoon came up.