Elgia La Grow
Home Town: Gladstone, CO
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 81, W.D., 1819
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Elgia La Grow, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Fey-en-Heye, France, September 12, 1918. Private La Grow displayed an admirable quality of courage in always being the first to venture forth in an endeavor to wipe out obstacles in his company’s advance. He captured without aid three enemy machine-guns on different occasions.