James Linwood Peatross

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to James Linwood Peatross, Major, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Bantheville, France, November 2, 1918. Though he had been wounded the day before and was so weak from exposure that he could hardly talk, Major Peatross remained with his battalion and led it in assault on enemy machine-gun nests north of the Bois-de- Barricourt. Under his personal direction, without artillery support, the machine-gun nests were flanked and the day’s objective reached in spite of the most determined resistance.