Henry A. Cheney

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Henry A. Cheney, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Chateau-Thierry, France, June 18 – 24, 1918. When his unit advanced on Belleau and Givry Private Cheney was seriously wounded in the left arm, but continued to carry his heavy gun with his right arm through twelve hundred meters of enemy fire and took up his position with his squad. When a shell struck his position, severely wounding a comrade and half burying him, the gun, and the remainder of the squad, he extricated himself, assisted his companions to recover the gun, and remained at his post until ordered to a dressing station by his platoon commander.