Byron W. Peyton

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Byron W. Peyton, Supply Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action northeast of Chateau-Thierry, France, July 29, 1918. In response to a call from the attacking battalion for ammunition Sergeant Peyton drove a combat wagon in broad daylight into the front-line positions near Vere-en-Tardenois, and delivered the ammunition required by his comrades on the front.