William R. Mcmorris

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to William R. McMorris, Captain, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action in the Argonne Forest, France, October 4, 1918. Captain McMorris directed the advance of his company through an intense artillery barrage and against heavy machine-gun fire. When the battalion commander had been wounded he assumed command of the battalion and led it to its objective, after which he consolidated the new position. While personally resisting an enemy counterattack he was wounded.