Under intense machine gun fire, he ran to collect the wounded
Navy Pharmacist’s Mate First Class John Henry Balch. Navy photo Sailor Earned MoH Saving Lives on WWI Battlefields By Katie Lange Born in 1896 in Edgerton, Kansas, Balch joined the Navy in May 1917 and became a pharmacist’s mate first class (a current-day hospital corpsman). He was assigned to the 2nd Division, American Expeditionary Forces, …