Nolan L. Jordan
Home Town: Courtland, VA
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 46, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Nolan L. Jordan, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Malancourt, France, September 26, 1918. Private Jordan, with another soldier of his platoon, outflanked a machinegun in advance of our line, killed three of the crew and captured two others, together with the machine gun.