Helen Grace Mcclelland
Distinguished Service Cross
U.S. Army
World War I
General Orders No. No. 17, W.D., 1926
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Helen Grace McClelland, Reserve Nurse, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while on duty with the surgical team at British Casualty Clearing Station No. 61, British area, France, August 17, 1917. Nurse McClelland occupied the same tent with Miss Beatrice MacDonald, another reserve nurse, cared for her when wounded, stopped the hemorrhage from her wounds under fire caused by bombs from German aeroplanes.
