Omar Clark Cox

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Omar Clark Cox, Sergeant First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Ypres, Belgium, July 16, 1918. Sergeant First Class Cox volunteered and assisted a British soldier to reestablish communication lines, which the heavy artillery fire had made useless. Crawling through almost direct machine-gun fire, and making his way through barbed wire, he reached his point, where he remained for almost two hours. He made his way back to our lines, through an intense hand- grenade bombardment.