William H. Daniell
Home Town: White Hall, IN
General Orders No. 50, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to William H. Daniell, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Ribeauville, France, October 18, 1918. When enemy sniper and machine-gun fire had held up his line and caused many casualties in his ranks, Private Daniell went forward a distance of about 150 yards and, with the aid of his machine-gun, put an enemy nest out of action and killed one of the snipers.
