James Manning - War Hero

MANNING

Posted By: S. Ferrall (email)
Date: 8/2/2004 at 05:58:05

DISTINGUISHED SERVICE CROSS
James Manning, corporal, Company C, 4th Engineers. For extraordinary heroism in action near St. Thibaut, France, August 8, 1918. He was one of our men who volunteered and swam the Vesle river for the purpose of doing work on the opposite bank necessary in the construction of a foot bridge. With another soldier he succeeded in felling a large tree in the face of heavy machine gun fire and one-pounder fire after the remainder of the platoon had withdrawn.

Residence at enlistment: General delivery, Des Moines, Iowa

-source: Official Register, State of Iowa 1921-1922, Twenty-Ninth Number, Military Decorations of Iowans in the World War, pg. 367

-transcribed by Sharyl Ferrall