James T. Rice

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to James T. Rice, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near the Bois-du-Fays, France, September 29, 1918, and in the Bois-de-Malaumont, France, October 11 – 13,1918. While at work with a group of men maintaining telephone communication, Private Rice went out under heavy fire and carried to shelter a comrade who had been wounded by a bursting shell, returning immediately and repairing breaks in the line. During the action in the Bois-de- Malaumont, he repeatedly exposed himself to heavy artillery and machine-gun fire in order to maintain telephone lines for the infantry, displaying remarkable courage.