John W. Mckay

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to John W. McKay, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action northwest of Bantheville, France, November 1, 1918. Immediately after the beginning of the attack in the Bois-de-Bantheville, France, when his company was held up by a strong machine- gun nest and his company commander and several others were killed by its fire, Corporal McKay, accompanied by an officer and with great gallantry and coolness, attacked and captured the machine-gun nest of four guns, killing or wounding a number of the crew.