Chauncey M. Griffith
Home Town: Amery, WI
General Orders No. 46, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Chauncey M. Griffith, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Greves Farm, France, July 15, 1918. Responding to a call for volunteers, Private Griffith, with eight other soldiers, manned two guns of a French battery which had been deserted by the French during the unprecedented fire, after many casualties had been inflicted on their forces. For two hours he remained at this post and poured an effective fire into the ranks of the enemy.
