James Lee O’Neal

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to James Lee O’Neal, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Sergy, France, October 5, 1918. When machine-gun and rifle fire was so heavy that his company commander would not order a runner out, Private O’Neal volunteered and carried messages from the regimental post of command to his company, making numerous trips under heavy machine-gun and shell fire, during the day and night.