Leland Brown

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Leland Brown, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Cote St. Germaine, France, November 6, 1918. Private First Class Brown attacked a machine-gun nest single handed and in the face of heavy fire, reduced the nest, capturing one prisoner. Later in the same day he patrolled alone under heavy fire in advance of his company and attacked another machine-gun position, capturing the gun and four prisoners.