Luther Gay

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Luther Gay, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near the Bois-de- Chatillon, France, November 5, 1918. As Private Gay and another soldier were going to the rear to guide the remainder of their company to its position, they were fired on from an enemy machine-gun nest. Attacking the nest, they killed four of the crew and captured one prisoner, driving off the remainder.