John W. Packett
Home Town: Lenoir City, TN
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 37, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to John W. Packett, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Ponchaux, France, October 7, 1918. Corporal Packett volunteered and carried a message to battalion headquarters under heavy artillery and machine-gun fire, although he had seen many of his comrades fall in attempting the same mission.