Lewis E. Lohmann

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Lewis E. Lohmann, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Laneuville, France, November 7, 1918. Corporal Lohmann displayed fearless devotion to duty in maintaining telephone lines while his battalion was in action near Laneuville. On one occasion he voluntarily accompanied an officer, and under heavy fire, repaired a telephone line which was severed 15 times in two hours within a length of only one kilometer.