John M. Millis

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to John M. Millis, Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action in Bantheville Woods, France, October 30, 1918. Wounded in both legs, one of them being broken when his daylight patrol was caught in heavy machine-gun fire 500 yards in advance of our lines, Second Lieutenant Millis ordered his men to return without him. He was later rescued by two soldiers.

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to John M. Millis, Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Charey, France, September 30, 1918. On the morning of that day an officer returning from patrol reported to Lieutenant Millis that he had encountered enemy machine guns and that several of his patrol had been wounded. Lieutenant Millis, with great courage and without regard to his own safety, proceeded over rough and broken ground to a point 400 yards beyond his outposts, where he exchanged several shots with the enemy. Meeting another member of the patrol he was informed of a wounded man about 100 yards beyond his position at that time. Under a withering machine-gun fire Lieutenant Millis with splendid courage and devotion to duty rushed into the open, located and examined the man, who he found to be dead. Making his way to his outpost he continued to exchange shots with the enemy, one of whom he killed.