Lawrence Scott Riddle
Home Town: Mattoon, IL
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 35, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Lawrence Scott Riddle, First Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at Bois-de-Chaume, France, October 11, 1918. Sergeant Riddle, with four other soldiers, flanked an enemy machine-gun position, killed three of the crew, and captured one, together with the guns. He was subsequently killed while leading a small group of men in an attack on an enemy machine-gun nest.