Lyman White

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Lyman White, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Bellicourt. France, September 29, 1918. When, with three other men, Sergeant White encountered a German patrol which outnumbered them five to one, he ordered his companions to keep the enemy down with fire from their Lewis gun. He then crept to the rear of the hostile patrol and attacked the Germans with bombs. At the same time his companions attacked from the front killing several of the Germans and capturing nine.