Clarence E. Lauber
Home Town: Wauseon, OH
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 44, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Clarence E. Lauber, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Pouilly, France, November 10 – 11, 1918. Private Lauber accompanied Lieutenant Murphy and three other soldiers in a flank attack on three heavy machine-guns; fired on directly at 30 yards, they charged the guns, and in the hand-to-hand fight which followed this soldier and two of his comrades were killed.