John H. Morgan
Home Town: Cincinnati, OH
General Orders No. 21, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to John H. Morgan, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Medeah Ferme, France, October 3, 1918. All of his superiors having been killed by a nest of machine guns, Corporal Morgan took command of his platoon and, in an extremely difficult attack, wiped out a nest of five machine guns.
