Claude H. Mason

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Claude H. Mason, First Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near St. Etienne, France, October 8 – 10, 1918. On October 8, Lieutenant Mason followed the wave of attack under heavy shell and sniper fire, and maintained an aid station with no protection, near the front lines, giving first aid to the wounded and evacuating the injured from a heavily shelled area, for a period of three days.