James Sutherland
Home Town: Chicago, IL
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders 87, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to James Sutherland, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action in the Forest of Argonne, France, October 3, 1918. Displaying exceptional devotion to duty and conspicuous courage, Sergeant Sutherland led his platoon up the steep slope of a ravine, under murderous machine-gun fire in an attack on a series of strong enemy machine-gun nests; and, in so doing was seriously wounded.