Samuel J. Marks

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Samuel J. Marks, First Lieutenant (Medical Corps), U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Malancourt, France, September 27 – 29, 1918. Lieutenant Marks advanced with the foremost elements of his battalion, dressing and evacuating the wounded under machine-gun fire for the period of twelve hours. On September 29th, when his aid station was shelled, several patients and attendants being killed and wounded, this officer, though himself wounded, remained at his post caring for patients who had received fresh wounds, and assisted in their evacuation.