Wade H. Jenkins

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Wade H. Jenkins, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near St. Marie Farm, France, September 14, 1918. Private First Class Jenkins volunteered to go forward with three other soldiers to reduce two machine-gun nests, which successively held up our advance. Crawling forward under heavy fire, he showed marked personal bravery, attacking and killing occupants of the enemy emplacements.