Morris A. Banister

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Morris A. Banister, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Mount Kemmel, Belgium, on the night of August 17, 1918. While engaged with a working party in the repair of the communicating trenches, Private First Class Banister voluntarily went to the rescue of a British ration party which had been struck by a high-explosive shell. Under concentrated machine-gun and rifle fire and continuous shell fire he assisted in carrying the British wounded for a distance of 125 yards while fully exposed to enemy fire and utterly without regard for his own safety.