Morrison F. Lewis

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Morrison F. Lewis, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Baslieux, France, September 5, 1918. Corporal Lewis directed a detail running a telephone line to an advanced observation post under heavy artillery and machine-gun fire, and when shell fire rendered the maintenance of the line impossible, directed the detail in the evacuation of wounded infantrymen. Subjecting himself to intense enemy fire, he carried to the rear the body of an officer who had been killed by enemy machine- gun fire.