Elsworth O. Terrill

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Elsworth O. Terrill, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action during the action in the vicinity of Hagenbach, Alsace, east of Belfort, France, August 21, 1918. When his right hand and arm were badly mangled by the explosion of a grenade during an enemy raid into our lines, Corporal Terrill placed his injured hand in his trousers pocket to support it, went over the top with his comrades and joined in the pursuit of the defeated and retreating Germans, throwing hand grenades with his left hand as he followed them back to their own lines.