James J. Snider

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to James J. Snider, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action in the Bois-de-Foret, France, October 10, 1918. After six runners had been killed or wounded in attempts to get through heavy shellfire with an important message from the regimental commander of the 39th Infantry to the regimental commander of the 59th Infantry, Private Snider, with Private Sidney Holzeman, responded to a call for volunteers and succeeded in delivering the message. While engaged on this mission Private Snider was badly gassed.