Ellison Moses
Home Town: Mayesville, SC
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 46, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Ellison Moses, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Ardeuil, France, September 30, 1918. After his company had been forced to withdraw from an advanced position, under severe machine-gun and artillery fire, Private Moses went forward and rescued wounded soldiers, working persistently until all of them had been carried to shelter.