John J. Hanley

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to John J. Hanley, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near St. Juvin, France, October 11, 1918. While on duty as a stretcher bearer, Private Hanley was painfully wounded in the head, but he nevertheless continued to evacuate the wounded, crossing and re-crossing the Aire River several times under heavy fire, and refusing to secure treatment himself until all of the other wounded had been cared for.