Clarence S. Wright

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Clarence S. Wright, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Ponchaux, France, October 7, 1918. Accompanying an officer, Corporal Wright aided him in putting two enemy machine-guns out of action. He then carried the information which they secured through a heavy machine-gun barrage to battalion headquarters. Later, when his platoon commander had been wounded, Corporal Wright took command and led the platoon until he was himself wounded.