Richard Lyle Simpson

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Richard Lyle Simpson, Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Preny, France, October 29, 1918. In charge of a patrol, Lieutenant Simpson had located the exact position of the enemy and was withdrawing, when he discovered that one man was missing. Although wounded himself, he went back, finding that the man had been killed and was entangled in the enemy’s wire. Unable to recover the body and being wounded the second time, he covered the withdrawal of his patrol and returned with his report.