Arthur Johnson

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Arthur Johnson, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Mont des Singes, France, September 30, 1918. Acting as ammunition carrier, Private Johnson received a painful injury in the back from a shell fragment. While engaged in carrying ammunition he found a wounded man in an exposed position and, regardless of his own wound, carried the man under heavy shell fire to the first-aid station, a distance of more than a kilometer, returning to his work immediately afterwards.