Simon M. Thompson

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Simon M. Thompson, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Medeah, Ferme, France, October 8, 1918. Under intense machine-gun fire during a counterattack following a heavy artillery barrage, Private Thompson, with another soldier, checked the attack for a considerable distance, killing ten of the enemy, including two officers, and keeping off the hostile party with his pistol while loading his rifle with his other hand.