David M. Maxwell

Pharmacist’s Mate Second Class: For gallantry in action while serving as a Medical Corpsman with the 5th Marines, 2d Division, A.E.F., on World War I at Chateau-Thierry, France

The Navy Cross is awarded to Pharmacist’s Mate Second Class David M. Maxwell, U.S. Navy, for extraordinary heroism while serving with the U. S. marines at the front in going out into the open to the aid of the wounded under heavy machine and artillery fire, in the performance of which heroic service he was killed.