Harry Boretz

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Harry Boretz, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at Arbre Guernon, Belgium, October 18, 1918. Although severely wounded and ordered to dressing station, Corporal Boretz returned to the front lines, rejoined his company and voluntarily joined a patrol which attacked and routed enemy machine-gun crews. The officer in command of the patrol having been killed, corporal Boretz assumed command thereof and directed the capture of an enemy machine-gun crew of four men.