Leland M. Barnett

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Leland M. Barnett, First Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Ivoiry, France, September 27, 1918. Having become separated from his battalion headquarters, Lieutenant Barnett, battalion adjutant, on his own initiative, undertook, under heavy artillery and machine-gun fire, to locate machine-gun nests which were hindering the advance. He ignored the warnings of his orderly as to the danger of this work and continued at it until he was killed.