Carr M. Thomas

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Carr M. Thomas, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Chateau-Thierry, France, July 21 – 23, 1918. With another soldier Sergeant Thomas voluntarily crossed an area swept by shell and machine-gun fire to establish liaison with the infantry, obtaining valuable information for the battery commander. Two days later, after working in an observatory under constant shell fire, this soldier was wounded, but he refused first aid until other men had been cared for, and went to the rear only upon being ordered to do so.