IAGenWeb.org Iowa in the Great War

Distinguished Service Cross Recipients

About the Distinguished Service Cross

Woodbury County

   
     Laurens C. Shull, deceased, second lieutenant, 26th Infantry. Near Soissons, France, July 19, 1918, he led his platoon with brilliant courage in two attacks and was badly wounded in the third, when, with equal vigor, he advanced against a machine gun nest.

Emergency address: D.C. Shull, father, 1112 Pierce Street, Sioux City, Iowa
Residence at appointment: 1112 Pierce Street, Sioux City, Iowa (Woodbury co.)

 
   

 

~source: Official Register, State of Iowa 1921-1922, Twenty-Ninth Number, Military Decorations of Iowans in the World War, pg. 360-376

~ Transcribed and contributed by Sharyl Ferrall for Iowa in the Great War Special Project