Allie Swaggerty

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Allie Swaggerty, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for repeated acts of extraordinary heroism in action at Madeleine Farm, France, October 12, and near Clery- le-Petit, France, October 2, 1918. Being on duty with a platoon which was not to take part in the attack, Sergeant Swaggerty asked for and received permission to go over the top with the attacking companies. When the left flank was held up by several machine-gun nests, Sergeant Swaggerty alone cleaned out one of the nests, in addition to cleaning out many German machine-gunners and snipers. Near Clery-le-Petit on November 2, Sergeant Swaggerty again voluntarily accompanied attacking troops, crawling 300 yards under heavy fire and bringing down three machine-gunners out of trees.