John B. Garner

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to John B. Garner, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action north of Clermery, in Lorraine, France, on the night of 16 – 17 August, 1918. Although wounded in the face and hand, Sergeant Garner went 50 meters up a road in the face of fire from two German machine-guns and of exploding grenades to rescue a lieutenant who lay 100 meters within the German wire, so severely wounded as to be unable to move without assistance. Sergeant. Garner put the officer on his back, crawled through the enemy’s wire and from there carried him 500 meters across open ground, under fire, to safety.