Thomas Bailey

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Thomas Bailey, Captain, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Fismes, France, September 4, 1918. When the advance was held up owing to lack of information and no man volunteered for a reconnaissance mission because of the hazard attached thereto, Captain (then First Lieutenant) Bailey undertook the mission. Crawling on his belly 100 yards across an open space and then traversing 200 yards of woods infested by the enemy he gained and returned with information of the greatest value, making possible a subsequent and successful attack.