Ernest Berry

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Ernest Berry, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action during the St. Mihiel offensive, France, September 14, 1918. Private Berry, with four other men, volunteered to cross a valley to the woods opposite and silence machine guns which had held up the advance of his company. In the face of heavy enemy fire this small group accomplished its mission, thus enabling the company to cross the valley without further loss. He was slightly wounded in the performance of this act and killed in action a few days thereafter.