John H. Flint

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to John H. Flint, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Ferme de Jonchery, France, July 15, 1918, and near La Marche, France, September 23, 1918. Stationed with the company train near a French battery of artillery, Sergeant Flint, then a mechanic, left a concrete shelter and volunteered to carry a severely wounded French soldier to the dressing station. To reach the dressing station, over a kilometer away, he crossed an open field, subjected at the time to intense artillery bombardment. Later when a 150-millimeter shell burst near a shelter tent in which he was sleeping, killing one and wounding three noncommissioned officers and hurling Sergeant Flint several yards, he called assistance and supervised the care of the wounded.