Lockwood Williams

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Lockwood Williams, First Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Clery-le-Petit, France, November 5, 1918. When his company was held up by a machine-gun nest, First Sergeant (then sergeant) Williams, with two soldiers, attacked the nest, killed two gunners and captured eight prisoners. This act made it possible for his company to advance and clear the bridgehead for the crossing. of the brigade.