Seiberling, Paul Adelbert
First lieutenant, 9th Machine Gun Battalion, 3d Division
Distinguished-Service Cross. General Orders No. 53, War Department, 1920: Near Madeleine Farm, France, October 16, 1918, Lieutenant Seiberling, with a comrade, exposed himself to heavy enemy machine-gun fire in crawling forward in advance of lines to rescue a wounded soldier. The wounded man was lying in a shell hole about 100 yards in advance of our lines. The rescuers were subject to enemy machine-gun fire from the time they left our lines until they returned.
Silver Star. General Orders No. 22, Headquarters 3d Division, A.E.F., July 8, 1919: The Commanding General desire to record in General Orders the valor and devotion to duty of these officers and men of the 3d Division. Their individual deeds, summed up, have created the glorious record enjoyed by the Marne Division, from those unforgettable days at Chateau-Thierry, in the defense of Paris, to the Victory Drive which began on the banks of the Marne, and continued relentlessly until its brilliant conclusion in the Argonne before Sedan: ......9thg Machine Gun Battalion .....Paul A. Seiberling, second lieutenant, Company A ....At Hill 241, near Cierges, France, October 9, 1918, Lieutenant Seiberling personally reconnoitered under heavy machine-gun and artillery fire for new gun positions. He also crawled out from his position under heavy fire to rescue a wounded man that was shot through the legs. Robert L. Howze, Major General, Commanding.
Record. Born January 20, 1895, Jonesboro; son of A.F. and Angie (Cline) Seiberling. Student, Purdue University. Enlisted May 12, 1917, Fort Benjamin Harrison. Training: Fort Benjamin Harrison. Second lieutenant, August 15, 1917; first lieutenant, April 11, 1919. Assigned to Casual Officers' Detachment, school duty overseas for one year as student and instructor in various machine-gun schools; transferred to 9th Machine Gun Battalion, October 1, 1918. Overseas September 11, 1917 - July 15, 1919.
Married Edna Ross. Son, John Paul; daughter, Elizabeth. Jonesboro.