John H. Groves
Home Town: Warehouse Point, CT
General Orders No. 46, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to John H. Groves, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near St. Juvin, France, October 16, 1918. Sergeant Groves led a patrol against a machine-gun nest which was causing many casualties in his company. He then worked his way to the rear of another machine-gun position, charged it, capturing three prisoners, two guns, and killing six of the enemy.
