Ernest O. Bailey

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Ernest O. Bailey, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Premont, France, October 9, 1918; and near Molain, France, October 17, 1918. When his company was held up by machine-gun fire, Corporal Bailey carried a message across open ground to a tank commander, whose tank brought the needed support for reducing the nests. On October 17, 1918, in company with an officer, he braved intense shell fire to rescue a wounded soldier.