Everett D. Lee

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Everett D. Lee, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Ronssoy, France, September 27, 1918. When the advance of his company was checked by concentrated machine-gun and rifle fire Sergeant Lee advanced alone, sought out enemy machine-gun nests, and by the use of hand grenades and with complete disregard for his own safety, killed and wounded members of enemy machine-gun crews, causing them to abandon the guns, and thus permitting the Infantry to again advance. Sergeant Lee’s courage and devotion to duty raised the morale of his company to a high pitch.