Elmer L. Lane

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Elmer L. Lane, Private, U.S. Army, for coolness and gallantry in action at Bois Brule, France, April 13, 1918. Standing on the parapet of a trench in order to see the advancing enemy through heavy fog, Private Lane continued, under heavy fire, to throw hand grenades at the enemy until severely wounded, thus preventing the enemy from penetrating the line in the vicinity of his post.