Liberty Pease

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Liberty Pease, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action in the Forest-de-Fere, near Nestles, northeast of Chateau-Thierry, France, July 26 to August 2, 1918. During the advance of his regiment in the Forest de Fere, Private Pease distinguished himself by his voluntary, authorized, and untiring efforts in carrying wounded, both by day and by night, under the most severe and dangerous circumstances, and especially when the town of Sergy was under bombardment, July 31, 1918.