William S. Yockey

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to William S. Yockey, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Sedan, France, November 6 – 7, 1918. Private Yockey voluntarily led two other men in an attack on a machine-gun nest, which was delivering a withering fire on the company and delaying its advance. By the skill and bravery of this attack, the enemy was killed and the advancing company saved from a dangerous flanking fire.