Jacob B. Teiseth
Home Town: Stanwood, WA
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 20, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Jacob B. Teiseth, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action in the Claires-Chenes Woods, France, October 20, 1918. Private Teiseth advanced in the attack with the company to which he was attached, and worked constantly under heavy machine-gun and rifle fire, searching for wounded and superintending their evacuation. While engaged in this work in the open under machine-gun fire he was killed.