George H. Spencley

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to George H. Spencley, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Cunel, France, October 15, 1918. Although painfully wounded in the back by a piece of enemy shell and tagged for evacuation to the hospital, Corporal Spencley refused to be evacuated, but returned to his gun during two enemy counterattacks, during which he stopped by his fire an enemy attack which had reached within 40 yards of his position.