Theodore F. Lee

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Theodore F. Lee, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Gesnes, France, September 29, 1918. When the advance of his battalion was held up by a machine-gun nest on a high ridge south of Gesnes, Private Lee and another soldier charged the emplacement, killing part of the crew and routing the others, capturing three heavy machine guns and one light Maxim gun, which they turned on the retreating Germans.