Claude E. Cavenee

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Claude E. Cavenee, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Remonville, France, November 1, 1918. After his platoon commander had been wounded, Sergeant Cavenee took command of his platoon, which was under heavy machine-gun and artillery fire, and, by the force of his own example of bravery, led his men in an attack successfully overcoming the enemy’s resistance, in spite of unfavorable odds.