Louis C. Dolce
Home Town: Butte, MT
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 44, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Louis C. Dolce, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Exermont, France, October 8, 1918. Corporal Dolce volunteered and laid a telephone line to an advanced observation post under heavy artillery and machine-gun fire, working his way the entire distance of more than one kilometer through dense undergrowth and barbed-wire entanglements.