Lawernce M. Lumpkin

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Lawernce M. Lumpkin, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Exermont, France, October 4, 1918. Sergeant Lumpkin conducted his pack train, loaded with wire, through the enemy’s counter barrage, over high, open ground, under direct observation of the enemy. Five of his ten mules were killed, but he managed to make a second trip and bring up enough wire to finish the line.