John M. Craig

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to John M. Craig, Colonel, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Soissons, France, July 18 – 19, 1918. After the commander of the front line battalion and most of the junior officers had been killed, Lieutenant Colonel Craig voluntarily left regimental headquarters and assumed command of the assault battalion. He led a small detachment of soldiers in a personal reconnaissance, locating and destroying machine- gun nests, thereby permitting the battalion to continue the advance which he led personally until he was killed.