Lester A. Miller

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Lester A. Miller, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Vaux- Andigny, France, October 11, 1918. While his company was engaged with the enemy in the attack on this town, Private Miller, accompanied by two other men and with a Lewis machine gun, by display of excellent initiative and great courage, voluntarily crawled around the town through a heavy hostile machine-gun fire and with the machine gun in a near-by house silenced the enemy machine gun and drove the crew from the harassing post which was holding up the company’s advance. During this action Private Miller was seriously wounded.