Thomas E. Swan

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Thomas E. Swan, Captain (Chaplain), U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action between the Marne and Vesle Rivers, July 31 to August 6, 1918. During the heavy fighting near the Ourcq River Chaplain Swan was in the front lines at all times, under heavy machine-gun and artillery fire throughout the day and night, comforting and aiding the wounded. On one occasion he crossed a field 200 yards wide, under violent shell fire, to minister to two soldiers who had been mortally wounded. In the operations near Mont St. Martin, he continually went back and forth over the crest of a hill during heavy artillery fire to care for the wounded.