Ivan E. Kay

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Ivan E. Kay, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Waereghem, Belgium, October 31, 1918. When the progress of two front-line companies had been held up by intense machine-gun fire and the enemy had begun to close in on our forces Private Kay, although in an exposed position, checked the advance of the enemy with rifle grenades until he was killed. His act made possible the renewal of the advance by the two companies.