James Flavian Lavery

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to James Flavian Lavery, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action during an engagement with hostile Mexicans at Nogales, Arizona, and Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, on the 27th of August, 1918. Private Lavery, braving the heaviest fire, repeatedly entered the zone of fire with his motor truck and carried wounded men to places of safety, thereby saving the lives of several soldiers.