Wendell W. Jacobs
Home Town: Glenwood Springs, CO
General Orders No. 37, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Wendell W. Jacobs, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action in the Bois-de-Bantheville, France, October 30, 1918. When six men of his section were wounded and his own hand was partly severed by a shell fragment, Private Jacobs had another soldier sever his hand with a pocket knife and then bandage it. While in this condition he assisted other wounded soldiers in every way possible before proceeding to the first-aid station, whence he was evacuated to the hospital.
