By direction of the President, under the provisions of the act of Congress approved July 9, 1918 (Bul. No. 43, W.D., 1918), Captain (Field Artillery) John E. Maher, United States Army, is cited by the Commanding General, 3d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, and a silver star may be placed upon the ribbon of the World War I Victory Medals awarded him. While serving with the 76th Field Artillery Regiment, 3d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, Captain Maher was Regimental Ammunition Officer in the Chateau-Thierry, St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne Offensives. He always showed absolute disregard to personal safety in conducting ammunition trucks and caissons to battery positions, in spite of limited transportation, the crowded and difficult road conditions. On the blackest of nights, made blacker by the flash of bursting shells, over roads he did not know, he calmly proceeded with the ammunition for the guns.