Benjamin E. Foust

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Benjamin E. Foust, Mechanic, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Exermont, France, September 29, 1918. After having one eye shot out, Mechanic Foust refused to avail himself of the opportunity to be evacuated to the rear, but rendered first aid to himself and continued to dress the wounds of his comrades, until a heavy concentration of gas so affected his wounded eye that he was forced to go to the rear. His work was the means of saving the lives of many of his comrades.