Floyd E. Heath

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Floyd E. Heath, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near St. Etienne-a-Arnes, France, October 4, 1918. Anticipating an enemy counter attack, Corporal Heath was ordered to take out a patrol of eight men to scour the woods to left of his position, drive out the snipers and establish liaison with the enemy on the left. Fearing that the size of the patrol would attract too much attention, he left the others in the trench, and going out, accomplished the mission alone, returning under heavy machine-gun fire.