James F. Mccrudden

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to James F. McCrudden, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Grand Pre, France, October 26, 1918. Acting on his own initiative, after all runners had failed to deliver a message, Private Mc-Crudden carried a message through an intense machine-gun fire for the captain of his company. Upon reaching the company he found that the captain had been killed and immediately returned through the same sweeping fire to report the fact.