Leo Gladstone

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Leo Gladstone, Private, U.S. Marine Corps, for extraordinary heroism while serving with the 51st Company, 5th Regiment (Marines), 2d Division, A.E.F. in action near Belleau Wood, France, June 6, 1918. Although wounded in the arm by a machine-gun bullet, Private Gladstone assisted in carrying a badly wounded soldier of his company to a dressing station and returned to the front line to find that the company of which he was a member had changed its position, and that another member of the company had been wounded and left behind exposed to enemy fire, whereupon Private Gladstone voluntarily advanced alone under enemy observation and intense fire to the point where the wounded man was lying, killed an enemy soldier who had captured the wounded man, and after an hour of fighting during which time Private Gladstone and the wounded man were again hit by enemy machine-gun fire, the former carried the latter back to the front line, thus undoubtedly saving his life.