James Cowie
Home Town: Du Bois, PA
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 35, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to James Cowie, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near St. Georges, France, November 3, 1918. While advancing with his platoon under heavy machine-gun fire and after providing shelter for his men Sergeant Cowie, with two of his men, outflanked a gun, capturing it and 18 prisoners.