http://ldsmag.com/ldsmag/articles/061110veteransprint.html

The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pride in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross (Posthumously) to Corporal Jens L. Stevenson (ASN: 1826693), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company F, 319th Infantry Regiment, 80th Division, A.E.F., at Bois-des-Ogons, France, October 6. 1918. Corporal Stevenson voluntarily left shelter and crawled in the open under heavy machine-gun fire to the aid of a wounded soldier. While trying to dress the latter’s injuries, Corporal Stevenson was killed by a machine-gun bullet.

General Orders: War Department, General Orders No. 2 (1926)
Action Date: 6-Oct-18
Service: Army
Rank: Corporal
Company: Company F
Regiment: 319th Infantry Regiment
Division: 80th Division, American Expeditionary Forces

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=djft3U1LymYC&dat=19190209&printsec=frontpage

On page 20 of the February 9, 1919 issue of the Pittsburgh Press is the same photograph as above of Corp. J. L. Stevenson. The text reads as follows:

How Corp. Jens L. Stevenson, Canadian, but recent resident of Pittsburg, was killed in battle is told in a letter from Lieut Theodore L. Cogswell, Co. F, Three Hundred and Nineteenth Infantry to Mrs. S. W. Perry, 128 Charles St., Knoxville. During a counter attack by Germans near Bois de Ogons Oct. 6, Corp Stevenson went to the aid of a wounded soldier between the German and American lines. While binding his wounds a German machine gun bullet killed him. His lieutenant has recommended a distinguished service cross for his family.

It’s barely possible that his name would appear on a monument in Pittsburgh in a list of men drafted from that city, especially in light of his DSC — I don’t know how to find that out, though, and hope another reader has an idea. There is no national listing of casualties, so I think western Pennsylvania is the only realistic place to look.

I remember as a girl growing up in Raymond, Alberta, that every Nov. 11th my mother would go to the Cenetaph to honor him along with others whose names were written there with many others in the town. Later in life I also came to appreciate Jens Leslie Stevenson for the life he gave and continue to feel a close bond to him.

I wonder if his name appears on any memorial in the United States? Who can help me with this. Most sincerely Deanna Hardy

Jens (actually, I think he may have gone by Leslie among friends) was the oldest of his parents’ children, the only one who would have been old enough to make any labor contribution at all when the family started over again on new land in Canada (Raymond, or near it). I haven’t yet come across any direct reaction to his death from his family, though. (I do know that Allegheny County, Pa., was suddenly very willing to claim him as one of their own when the DSC was awarded, although they knew nothing about him beyond the facts on his draft registration card — available through ancestry.com, if any of you have access to that.)