John E. Dillion

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to John E. Dillion, Private, U.S. Marine Corps, for extraordinary heroism while serving with the 75th Company, 6th Machine-Gun Battalion, 6th Regiment (Marines), 2d Division, A.E.F. in action near Beaumont, France, November 10, 1918. Private Dillion was painfully wounded in the foot by a bursting shell which killed or wounded all the members of his gun crew, but as soon as he had obtained first-aid treatment, he immediately returned to his comrades and worked all night under heavy shell fire, carrying wounded to the dressing station.

The Navy Cross is presented to John E. Dillion, Private, U.S. Marine Corps, for extraordinary heroism while serving with the 75th Company, 6th Machine-Gun Battalion, 6th Regiment (Marines), 2d Division, A.E.F. in action near Beaumont, France, November 10, 1918. Private Dillion was painfully wounded in the foot by a bursting shell which killed or wounded all the members of his gun crew, but as soon as he had obtained first-aid treatment, he immediately returned to his comrades and worked all night under heavy shell fire, carrying wounded to the dressing station.