Jackson S. Lawrance
Distinguished Service Cross
U.S. Army
World War I
General Orders No. 20, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Jackson S. Lawrance, Major (Medical Corps), U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at Binarville, France, September 30, 1918. Major Lawrance, with two soldiers, voluntarily left shelter and crossed an open space 50 yards wide, swept by shell and machine-gun fire, to rescue a wounded soldier, whom they carried to a place of safety.
