Herman C. Craven

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Herman C. Craven, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Premont, France, October 9, 1918. While serving as a runner, Private Craven volunteered to go to an exposed position on the flank to a body of troops, deliver a message to them if they were Americans, and report back if they were Germans. Using a captured German bicycle, he rode along a road subjected to heavy fire, found that the troops were American, and delivered an important message.