Dewey Hobson Mannan

Private, 1187881, 8th Company, 5th Regiment, U. S. Marine Corps, 2d Division

Silver Star. General Orders No. 40, Headquarters 2d Division, A. E. F., France, July 5, 1918: The names of and the deeds performed by the following named officers and enlisted men of this division are published as being well worthy of emulation and praise:........Private Dewey H. Mannan, Machine Gun Company, 5th Regiment, U. S. Marine Corps. Showed extraordinary heroism under heavy machine-gun fire by volunteering to cross an open field to bring in wounded who were calling for help, on the night of June 7. This in the Bois de Belleau, June 7, 1918......By command of Major General Bundy: Preston Brown, Colonel, General Staff, Chief of Staff. Official: William W. Bessell, Adjutant General, Adjutant.

Croix de Guerre with bronze star (France). Order No. 11.549 "D", November 15, 1918, General Headquarters, French Armies of the North and Northeast: He displayed great bravery on June 7, 1918, in voluntarily going out in front of the lines under a violent machine-gun fire to aid some wounded comrades who were calling for help.

Record: Born September 17, 1897, Eminence; son of Pemberton and Thursa (Little) Mannan. Farmer, student, Eminence. Enlisted April 17, 1917, Indianapolis. Training: Parris Island, South Carolina. Assigned to 8th Company, 5th Regiment, U. S. Marine Corps. Overseas June 27, 1917 - April 18, 1919. Battles: Toulon, Aisne, Verdun, Chateau-Thierry, Aisne-Marne, Soissons, Marbache, St. Miheil, Meuse-Argonne, Champagne. Wounded October 4, 1918, Meuse-Argonne. Gassed November 10, 1918, Meuse-Argonne. Discharged June 30, 1919.

Married Flossie Ballinger. Frederick, Oklahoma.