Charles S. Dennison

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Charles S. Dennison, Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action in the forest of Argonne, France, September 27, 1918. Second Lieutenant Dennison was in command of a patrol sent out in the afternoon to locate a machine-gun nest. In the course of this operation he received a severe wound, but after reporting the location of the machine-gun nest at company headquarters he immediately returned to the vicinity of the machine-gun nest and spent the greater part of the night searching for a member of his patrol who was missing. Although he was suffering severe pain from his wounds, he refused to go to the first-aid station before the missing soldier was found.