Charles A. Briggs

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Charles A. Briggs, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action in the Foret D’Argonne, north of La Harazee, France, September 29, 1918. Knowing that his commanding officers and three soldiers had been shot down and reported killed, Sergeant Briggs volunteered, obtained permission, and passed into a zone of heavy and continuous machine-gun fire to where his comrades lay, to render first aid and to rescue them if alive, but unfortunately he found his comrades dead.