Norris W. Ryley

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Norris W. Ryley, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Seicheprey, France, April 20, 1918. All wire communications having been destroyed, two of the three guns of his battery also destroyed, and fifty per cent of the men of the battery killed or wounded, and several runners having been killed or wounded in attempting to carry messages to the battalion post of command, Private Ryley voluntarily and repeatedly crossed an exposed field a distance of 700 yards under terrific machine-gun and artillery fire, and again repeated his hazardous task on April 21, 1918, and on each occasion accomplishing his mission. His heroic conduct was an inspiration to every man of his regiment.