Lexie Downham
Home Town: Anderson, IN
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 99, W.D., 1918
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Lexie Downham, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at Cantigny, France, May 28 – 30, 1918. Private First Class Downham captured, single-handed, by exercising unusual bravery, ten of the enemy.