Mathew E. Conklin

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Mathew E. Conklin, Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near St. Juvin, France, October 16, 1918. Lieutenant Conklin was wounded while leading his company in advance, but continued to lead his men across an open area under a heavy machine-gun and artillery fire, wading the Agran River, and took his position on a hillside where he directed the digging in of his company, before he would be evacuated.