Marion Francis Study
Distinguished Service Cross
U.S. Army
World War I
General Orders 81, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Marion Francis Study, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Molain, France, October 17, 1918. With another soldier Private First Class Study volunteered to go out across an open space swept by heavy machine-gun fire, about 150 yards to the front, to rescue two wounded soldiers, whom he helped to bring back to the line.