Ira L. Wescott

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Ira L. Wescott, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Juvigny, France, August 28 – 30, 1918. Sergeant Wescott, as second in command, accompanied a small combat patrol which successfully attacked an enemy trench up by 30 of the enemy, with machine-guns, driving the enemy from the trench and inflicting many casualties. When the patrol leader was severely wounded, Sergeant Wescott took command and immediately reorganized the patrol, holding the captured position despite a severe harassing fire from the enemy, until relief came.