Roy B. Andes

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Roy B. Andes, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at Bois-de-Beuge, north of Montfaucon, France, September 29, 1918. Voluntarily accompanying Lieutenant Goetz, under intense enemy machine-gun and artillery fire, Private First Class Andes made his way over rough and broken terrain to the advanced position held by a provisional battalion of his regiment with a message to the battalion commander to immediately withdraw his forces to a position in the rear, as an American barrage was about to fall, and a short time later did fall, on the woods which was formerly occupied by the battalion. The heroic conduct of Private Andes and the officer he accompanied saved the lives of many of his comrades.