Roy H. Gooding

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Roy H. Gooding, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Somme-Py, France, October 2 – 9, 1918. Private Gooding volunteered and drove an ambulance at night, relieving men who were exhausted, and evacuated wounded from the most advanced posts under shell fire. On October 5 he voluntarily went out and repaired an ambulance which had been damaged by a shell, in direct view of the enemy, who shelled the place continually as he worked. On October 7 he repaired another car under the same circumstances, assuring the prompt evacuation of the wounded.