Westra Higgins
Home Town: Charlestown, MA
General Orders No. No. 35, W.D., 1920
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Westra Higgins, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action north of Verdun, France, October 23, 1918. Sergeant Higgins alone attacked two machine-gun nests which were holding up the advance of his platoon, killing four of the enemy and capturing two.
