Albert P. Holmes
Home Town: Chicago, IL
General Orders No. No. 128, W.D., 1918
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Albert P. Holmes, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at Chipilly Ridge, France, August 9, 1918. After six runners had been killed or wounded in an attempt to establish liaison with battalion headquarters, Private Holmes volunteered for this hazardous duty and succeeded in getting through under heavy shell fire where others had failed.
