Otis C. Scoby

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Otis C. Scoby, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Brieulles, France, November 2 – 4, 1918. While making a daylight reconnaissance of the Canal Est, Sergeant Scoby was at all times in full view of the enemy’s snipers and machine-guns. Unmindful of the danger, he continued on to the successful accomplishment of his mission. On the morning of November 4 he aided materially in the construction of a pontoon bridge across the Canal Est, under heavy shell fire, thus enabling the infantry to cross and capture commanding heights on the east bank of the Meuse.