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Awards Received

  • Distinguished Service Cross

    Service:

    Foreign

    Rank:

    Private First Class

    Regiment:

    153d Regiment (Infantry)

    Action Date:

    July 1, 1918

    War Department, General Orders 81 (1919)

    The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross to Private First Class Yves Marie LeCam, Army of France, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with 153d Regiment (Infantry), Army of France, near Vauxbrun, Soissons, France, 1 July 1918. While advancing with and assisting an American colonel in an attack on the enemy, Private Le Cam displayed meritorious valor in combating the enemy. With fixed bayonet, he attacked the hostile party and exacted no less than four casualties, one of whom was a non-commissioned officer.