Marshall G. Peabody

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Marshall G. Peabody, Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Moulin-de-Charlevaux, in the Forest d’Argonne, France, October 4 – 5, 1918. While commanding a detachment of his battalion operating with a battalion of the 308th Infantry, Lieutenant Peabody, although badly wounded, continued to personally direct the fire and operation of his machine guns, which were continuously meeting and shattering the repeated hostile attacks and defending the entire Infantry detachment in its exposed and precarious position. While crawling in a severely wounded condition to a machine gun in a most exposed position, he was killed by enemy machine-gun fire.