John S. Rives
Home Town: Lincoln, TN
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders 87, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to John S. Rives, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Bellicourt, France, September 29, 1918. Showing marked personal bravery, he repeatedly crossed shell-swept area subjected to heavy machine-gun fire to delivery important messages. Wounded in the head by shrapnel he bound up the wound and continued his work of maintaining liaison until he was killed by machine-gun fire.