Jens L. Stevenson
Home Town: Pittsburgh, PA
General Orders No. No. 2, W.D., 1926
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Jens L. Stevenson, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at Bois-des- Ogons, France, October 6. 1918. Corporal Stevenson voluntarily left shelter and crawled in the open under heavy machine-gun fire to the aid of a wounded soldier. While trying to dress the latter’s injuries, Corporal Stevenson was killed by a machine-gun bullet.
