Vivian S. Lawrence, Jr.

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Vivian S. Lawrence, Jr., Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Gercourt, France, September 29, 1918. While Corporal Lawrence was passing along the roads leading to Septsarges, near Gercourt, in an ambulance, a large shell fell among a group of infantry soldiers nearby, severely wounding five of them. He stopped the ambulance and rendered efficient first aid, although under concentrated shell fire. He then loaded the patients in the ambulance and removed them from the shelled area.