James L. Mcinerney

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to James L. McInerney, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at Fismette, France, August 20, 1918. When the battery to which Private McInerney belonged was changing position at midnight, the detail carrying the supplied was struck by a salvo from an enemy artillery barrage, killing two and wounding several men of the detail. When volunteers were called for by the commanding officer to remove the dead and wounded, Private McInerny was one of the first to volunteer. Private McInerney secured a team and wagon and placed it in a sheltered position. He then made three successive trips across an enemy shell-swept area of three or four hundred yards, each time carrying one of the seriously wounded men to the wagon. On the fourth trip he led five of the less seriously wounded to the sheltered position. After placing the eight men in his wagon he drove with them to the field hospital and later to the hospital at Cohan.