Ellis Owens, Jr.

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Ellis Owens, Jr., Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Mezy, France, July 15, 1918. When an advanced position of his battery was penetrated by the enemy in greatly superior numbers, Sergeant Owens, with utter disregard of his personal safety, voluntarily securing a motor truck, drove it to the battery position through an exposed area heavily swept by enemy artillery and machine gun fire, and, although he himself was severely injured, succeeded in rescuing and removing to safety a wounded officer and several wounded enlisted men.

Decorations U.S. Army, Supplement IV, 1940