James H. Spafford

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to James H. Spafford, First Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at St. Etienne, France, October 9, 1918. Seeing a combat patrol suddenly fired upon by an enemy machine-gun nest and hard pressed, Lieutenant Spafford went to its relief, courageously leading an attack on the machine nest. Although wounded in the arm during the attack, he continued in the action of the attack until he received a second wound, which caused his death.