Palmer O. Narveson

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Palmer O. Narveson, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Bellicourt, France, September 29, 1918. When he and two soldiers, separated from the rest of the company, were fired upon from three directions, Sergeant Narveson attacked and demolished a machine-gun nest by himself; and then reduced a second hostile position. Though wounded and slightly gassed, he refused to be evacuated, and continued the advance.