The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Cross to Drummer August A. Schovan AKA: J. Harold Arnold (MCSN: 102418), United States Marine Corps, for exceptionally heroism in the Dominican Republic on 1 December 1916. J. Harold Arnold, while serving under the name of Arnold A. Schovan, Drummer of the Thirty-First Company, Fourth Regiment, U.S. Marine Corps, in action involving actual conflict with the enemy, distinguished himself conspicuously by gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty.