Laurel Shore

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Laurel Shore, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action in connection with military operations against an armed enemy of the United States at Ivory, France, October 4, 1918. Corporal Shore displayed utter disregard for personal danger in repeatedly carrying messages across an area 1,000 meters wide which was being subjected to heavy artillery and machine-gun fire. In carrying messages between company and battalion headquarters he repeatedly passed through German barrages.