John J. Gribbon

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to John J. Gribbon, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Meurcy Farm, France, July 30, 1918. When his patrol had been caught under a severe cross fire by machine-guns and most of the members killed or wounded, and the survivors withdrawn to cover, it was discovered that a wounded man had been left at the farthest point to which the patrol had advanced. Sergeant Gribbon, then a corporal, volunteered to rescue him. Running a hundred yards over open country swept by withering machine-gun fire, he reached the severely wounded member of his patrol, and half dragged, half carried his helpless comrade back with him to safety.