Lester Brown
Home Town: Murfreesboro, TN
General Orders No. 50, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Lester Brown, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Joully, France, November 10, 1918. After a small patrol had failed to silence a machine gun, Private Brown rushed forward with an automatic rifle, through a heavy machine-gun fire, and was wounded.
