Lyle H. Small
Home Town: Mazon, IL
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders 81, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Lyle H. Small, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Vilcey, France, September 12, 1918. Corporal Small, with another soldier, volunteered to outflank an enemy machine-gun nest, and, under most harassing fire, captured the gun and 11 prisoners.