Adelord Levesque

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Adelord Levesque, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Montfaucon, France, October 5, 1918, and near Cierges, France, October 18, 1918. On October 5, when four men of his gun crew were wounded and he himself hit by a shell fragment, Sergeant Levesque kept the gun in action until a new gun crew was organized. On October 18, when an enemy shell burst at his gun, killing or wounding all the gun crew but himself, he again kept to his gun carrying out the mission assigned to him.