Lewis E. Whitehead

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Lewis E. Whitehead, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at St. Juvin, France, October 16, 1918. Sergeant Whitehead, then corporal, after giving first aid to his platoon leader, who had been wounded, took command of the platoon and led it in an attack in the face of concentrated enemy artillery and machine- gun fire, reaching the objective and effectively protecting the exposed flank of the assaulting battalion with his two guns.