Thorndike Deland

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Thorndike Deland, First Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Marimbois Farm, France, November 4, 1918. Assisted by a soldier, First Lieutenant Deland went forward in advance of the infantry to lay telephone wires. Nearing Marimbois Farm, they found the place occupied by the enemy. Armed with hand grenades, he advanced on a dugout, where he routed out 17 of the enemy, bringing them back to our lines in the midst of a severe shell and machine-gun fire.