Clarence W. Lake
Born:
Home Town: Topsfield, MA
Status:
General Orders 66, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Clarence W. Lake, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Gesnes, France, October 5, 1918. With two other soldiers, Corporal Lake advanced ahead of their company and rushed an enemy machine-gun nest from the flank, capturing 14 members of the crew and two machine-guns and thereby enabling the advance to continue. Carrying the captured guns with them to the objective, they later used them successfully in repelling a hostile counterattack.