James R. Bower
Home Town: Pasadena, CA
General Orders No. 13, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to James R. Bower, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Gesnes, France, September 29, 1918. Private Bower was with his company commander and three other soldiers, firing at Germans in trees, when he observed another group of the enemy about to open fire on his party. He directed attention toward the enemy in order to warn his company commander and the other soldiers. In so doing he drew the first shots from the Germans and was killed.
