Herman Blair Mcmanaway

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Herman Blair McManaway, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Hardicourt, France, September 26, 1918. Volunteering to act as stretcher bearer, Corporal McManaway assisted in evacuating the wounded, during a severe gas shelling. Realizing the presence of strong gas, he unhesitatingly took off his mask and placed it on a wounded man whose mask had been shot away, and in so doing he was badly gassed. It then became necessary to evacuate him, but his heroic and timely act saved the life of his comrade.