Jack Randolph Swain

Sergeant 1st Class, U. S. Army

Distinguished Service Cross

GENERAL ORDERS:
War Department, General Orders No. 15 (1919)
CITATION:
The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross to Private Jack R. Swain (ASN: 10391), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Section No. 647, Ambulance Service, A.E.F., near Beaumont, France, on 19 June 1918.
Private Swain went to the rescue of wounded men who were exposed to shell fire as a result of an accident to their ambulance. Being able to approach only to within 300 yards of the wrecked car on the road, he took a stretcher and crawled along a ditch to reach them. He then returned and recovered the body of a third man who had been killed in the accident.