Charles Holmes

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Charles Holmes, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Gesnes, France, October 14, 1918. Private Holmes carried to safety a wounded officer, passing over a path blocked by two barbed-wire obstacles, and enfiladed by enemy machine-gun fire. After successfully accomplishing this perilous mission, Private Holmes succeeded in working his way back to his company over the same route, in the face of heavy fire.