Frank B. Thomas

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Frank B. Thomas, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Ronssoy, France, September 27, 1918. When the telephone lines had been destroyed by the advancing tanks, and the enemy had started a counterattack from the three sides before new ones could be laid, Private Thomas volunteered to carry a message from the infantry battalion to which he was attached and succeeded in going through intense artillery, machine-gun, and sniper fire to regimental headquarters, delivering the message in time to enable reinforcements to be brought up.