Clarence Orlando Kjose

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Clarence Orlando Kjose, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action in the Claires-Chenes Woods, France, October 15, 1918. Advancing with two squads in front of the company to which he was attached, after being twice stopped by enfilading machine-gun fire and losing half his detachment Corporal Kjose continued to lead his squad through the woods; and put out of action an enemy machine-gun, which had been holding up the advance of the Infantry. This soldier had been wounded twice within the three preceding days, but continued in action refusing to be evacuated.