Leonard H. F. Wessel

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Leonard H. F. Wessel, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Verdun, France, October 12 – 14, 1918. Private First Class Wessel performed his duties as a runner under heavy shell fire three days and nights without rest, and when the relay stations between the battalion and regimental posts of command had been wiped out he continued to carry messages the entire distances between the two posts.