Lloyd Eller
Home Town: Enders Lake, NE
General Orders No. No. 3, W.D., 1935
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Lloyd Eller, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Mouzon, France, November 10, 1918. During the construction of a floating footbridge across the Meuse River the engineers were subjected to violent machine-gun and small arms fire at short range. Private Eller was undismayed by the enemy’s fire and the fact that most of the men around him had fallen. When the bridge broke, he lashed it together and then despite his drenched condition from the icy water volunteered as bridgehead guard on the enemy’s side of the river.
