Grant S. Lindsay

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Grant S. Lindsay, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Sedan, France, November 7, 1918. Sergeant Lindsay was in command of his platoon on the right flank of the assaulting wave when hidden concentrations of machine guns were encountered in front and on the right flank. Skillfully maneuvering his combat groups, he led them . with remarkable courage and coolness through the heavy enemy machine-gun fire and broke up the hostile counterattack which had been started. In so doing, he personally advanced ahead of his men under heavy fire from machine guns and snipers, and succeeded in locating some of the machine-gun nests.