Leroy F. Marshall

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Leroy F. Marshall, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Verdun, France, October 9, 1918. Corporal Marshall voluntarily went forward to silence a sniper who was pouring a dangerous fire into his position. He crept through brush for a distance of 300 yards and then crossed a machine-gun swept area, killing the sniper with his rifle.