Ernest L. Hitchens

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Ernest L. Hitchens, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Crepion, France, November 7 – 8, 1918. While his battalion was conducting a relief, Sergeant Kitchens and four members of his platoon were wounded by shell fire. After he had taken the four wounded comrades to a first-aid station, he immediately returned without treatment to himself, despite his severe suffering from, three body wounds, and remained with his platoon until the completion of the relief.