Simeon L. Nickerson

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Simeon L. Nickerson, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Epieds, France, July 23, 1918. Sergeant Nickerson, Corporal M. J. O’Connell, and Private Thomas Ryan volunteered to cross an open field in front of their company, in order to ascertain the location of enemy machine guns. While engaged in this courageous enterprise they were shot and killed. The heroic self-sacrifice of these three men saved the lives of many of their comrades who would have been killed had the company attempted to make the advance as a whole.