Albert C. Presley
Home Town: Grants Pass, OR
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 37, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Albert C. Presley, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Eclisfontaine, France, September 27,1918. Sergeant Presley, with a patrol of four other men, went out to reduce what was thought to be a sniping post; they discovered upon arriving nearer that it was a machine-gun nest and attacked it by a series of short rushes. The attack resulted in the capture of 25 prisoners and two machine- guns.