John H. Mecom

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to John H. Mecom, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Cierges, France, July 31, 1918. Though severely wounded while advancing with his platoon in the face of heavy fire from enemy machine guns, Private Mecom refused to return to the rear for first aid and he not only continued in the advance but with another soldier successfully attacked a machine-gun nest.