John R. Polley

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to John R. Polley, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Cheppy, France, September 26, 1918. When the infantry attack was held up by direct fire from an enemy concrete machine-gun emplacement, Private Polley, who was a member of a wire-cutting detail, charged the emplacement with one infantry soldier, capturing two guns and two prisoners and enabling the advance to continue.