Alfred Jacobson

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Alfred Jacobson, Captain, French Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near the Ourcq River, France, July 26 to August 2, 1918. When our advance was held up by stubborn resistance of the enemy in the Bois Brule, Captain Jacobson personally took a telephone to a point less than 300 meters from the enemy’s lines and so directed the fire of our artillery as to compel the evacuation of the Bois. He was under continuous shell fire while performing this mission. On August 2, when the regiment had lost contact with the enemy, he went forward with a small party, at great risk of his own life, and developed the enemy’s line.