Bradley Lawson

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Bradley Lawson, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Bellicourt, France, September 29, 1918. Having been wounded by a bursting shell immediately after the opening of the attack, Private Lawson refused to go to the rear, but remained with his corporal, who had been severely wounded by the same shell. For two hours, under an intense enemy barrage, he continued to minister to his wounded comrade, until another shell burst nearby, by which he was fatally wounded.