Fred W. Lapean

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Fred W. Lapean, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action during the Meuse-Argonne offensive, north of Cierges, France, September 30, 1918. Under observation of the enemy and subjected to heavy machine-gun fire, Sergeant Lapean, on his own initiative, worked his way from shell hole to shell hole in order to give first aid to three wounded men who were lying in an open field next to the Cierges- Romagne Road.