Kenneth M. Mccann

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Kenneth M. McCann, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Mount Kemmel, Belgium, August 29 – 31, 1918. Corporal McCann, a signalman, worked continuously for 72 hours without relief through repeated gas bombardments. When the forward lines were cut by shell fire, he personally directed the running of a new line under a heavy shell and machine-gun fire.