Joseph E. Tennyson

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Joseph E. Tennyson, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Verdun, France, October 8 – 24, 1918. In several advances during this period Corporal Tennyson led his squad in attacks on machine-gun nests with conspicuous gallantry, always disregarding his own safety and encouraging his men both by words and actions. On October 24 while leading his squad on an attack on a machine-gun nest he was instantly killed.