Lester Brown
Home Town: Murfreesboro, TN
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
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.