Lee Jones

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Lee Jones, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action north of Cierges, France, October 4, 1918. Learning that his company commander was wounded in making a reconnaissance, Private Jones, with utter disregard for his own personal danger, crawled about 100 yards in advance of the front line under intense machine-gun and rifle fire, succeeded in reaching the wounded officer, and moved him back within the front line. About an hour later Private Jones, although wounded, carried the officer about a mile to the first-aid station in Cierges.