Earl Pursley
Home Town: Minneapolis, MN
General Orders No. 37, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Earl Pursley, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Lesseux, France, September 4, 1918. Private Pursley voluntarily carried a wounded soldier from an exposed position under intense enemy shell fire for a distance of 400 yards to the dressing station. He then immediately returned to the position and helped to dig out men who had been buried by the explosion of a shell.
