Albert H. Stout

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Albert H. Stout, Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action in Bois-de- Foret, France, October 12, 1918. After the battalion objective had been reached at the north edge of Bois-de-Foret, Lieutenant Stout’s platoon which was in the front wave, was attacked from the rear by the enemy, who had penetrated the line to the left. Lieutenant Stout . quickly changed his position and led his men in a hand-to-hand fight. The hostile force, consisting of 40 men armed with six machine-guns, was killed or captured, Lieutenant Stout himself killing three Germans and capturing one machine- gun.