Irving LE Nois Ragsdale
Home Town: Portland, OR
General Orders No. 35, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Irving Le Nois Ragsdale, Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for repeated acts of extraordinary heroism in action near Beaufort, France, November 4, 1918, and near Laneuville, France, November 6, 1918. Advancing across open ground under intense machine-gun and artillery fire on November 4, 1918, Lieutenant Ragsdale killed an enemy machine-gunner with his automatic pistol. Later he again crossed an open field under terrific machine-gun fire, killing two enemy gunners who were retarding the advance. On November 6, during an intense shell and gas bombardment of Laneuville, he repeatedly exposed himself while assisting the wounded.
