Lovick P. Lingo

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Lovick P. Lingo, Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at Cornay, France, October 9 – 10, 19I8. Lieutenant Lingo was with an attacking party, which, after driving off the enemy, was counterattacked and surrounded. Upon being called on to surrender, he refused, and despite the fact that ten men had been shot down in trying to get away, fought his way out and, though wounded, reached his own lines. Later, when Lieutenant Lingo learned that his company ‘was without officers, he returned and remained with it for several days until weakness from his wound forced his evacuation.