Benjamin G. Irons

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Benjamin G. Irons, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Vieville-en-Haye, France, September 25 – 26, 1918. Private Irons, with another soldier, advanced to an exposed position, and while administering first aid to a wounded man the three were suddenly surrounded and captured by a party of the enemy. While being taken toward the German lines, Private Irons and his companion attacked their captors and succeeded in freeing themselves, at the same time capturing two Germans, whom they brought to battalion headquarters, together with the wounded man.