Floyd H. Wells
Home Town: Chester, IA
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 50, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Floyd H. Wells, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near St. Juvin, France, October 16, 1918. With another soldier Corporal Wells advanced several hundred yards ahead of the front line, under heavy artillery and machine-gun fire, and rescued a wounded comrade.