Matt Stevens

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Matt Stevens, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action throughout the advance across the River Ourcq and to Fismes, France, on the south bank of the Vesle River, July 31 to August 8, 1918. Corporal Stevens, then a private was a runner for his company and was engaged day and night in carrying messages throughout machine-gun and artillery fire. He did his work without fear or hesitation, thereby keeping constant liaison with higher authority. During times not so occupied he administered aid to the wounded, crawling to stricken comrades at imminent risk of his own life, through areas swept by machine-gun fire. Through disregard of danger he was the means of saving many wounded men.