Elmer Evenson
Home Town: Elkhorn, WI
General Orders No. 55, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Elmer Evenson, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Juvigny, France, August 30, 1918. Sergeant Evenson voluntarily made five trips in front of the line, under intense machine-gun and artillery fire, and brought in five wounded men, who had been left in an exposed position after a withdrawal of the line.
