James R. Miller

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to James R. Miller, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Cote-de-Roches, France, October 8, 1918. When the advance of the battalion to which his company was attached, was halted by heavy machine-gun fire this soldier boldly leaped to the top of his machine-gun replacement to draw the enemy fire and thus enable his crew to locate the enemy’s emplacement. Later in the action he fearlessly left his trench in search of an enemy sniper, who was causing many casualties among our troops, and killed him with a captured German rifle.