Charles B. Elliott

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Charles B. Elliott, Major, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Chateau-Thierry, France, June 6 – 7, 1918. Leading his command in combat on June 6 – 7, Major Elliott reformed his badly shattered units in the face of unusual and annihilating fire and directed the placing of his guns throughout a severe gas attack, which severely poisoned him. While leading two companies of his battalion forward in the attack, July 19, he was wounded by artillery fire.