Thomas M. White

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Thomas M. White, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Toter Manns Valley, France, October 4, 1918. While in command of his platoon, Sergeant White went with two other soldiers to the rescue of three members of a gun crew, among whom a German hand grenade had burst. Finding one of the men dead and another so severely wounded that he could not be moved, Sergeant White carried the third man to shelter in plain view of the enemy, under continuous shell and machine-gun fire. His comrades also having been wounded, he also succeeded in getting them back to safety, and thereafter twice returned to the gun position to administer first aid and carry water to the wounded soldier, who could not be moved.