By direction of the President, under the provisions of the act of Congress approved July 9, 1918 (Bul. No. 43, W.D., 1918), Mess Sergeant Owen E. Newlon (ASN: 1550625), 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 Battery C, 76th Field Artillery Regiment, 3d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, Mess Sergeant Newlon demonstrated extraordinary bravery and devotion to duty on 8 November 1918 near Mouzay, France. Sergeant Newlon, learning that the battery had been ordered into position near Mouzay, took his rolling kitchen, water cart, and ration cart into Mouzay with the first line of the Infantry, over a road exposed to machine gun and shell fire. He, being unable to get communication with the battery and knowing that the men were in dire straits for rations, kept his outfit in this town until he learned the location of the battery position, in spite of a warning from the Infantry commander that it was very dangerous, and succeeded in getting food to the firing battery.