Clement P. Dickinson
Home Town: Clinton, MO
General Orders No. No. 31, W.D., 1922
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Clement P. Dickinson, First Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Charpentry, France, September 27, 1918. Lieutenant Dickinson voluntarily went forward alone through intense artillery and machine-gun fire to locate machine-gun positions and having accomplished this, returned and led his company forward to the attack, thus passing three times through this intense field of fire. On the following morning, having again volunteered to reconnoiter the new positions, he was instantly killed by a high-explosive shell.
