Henry Boice Hunt

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Henry Boice Hunt, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Remicourt, France, October 8, 1918. While the advance of his company was being held up by terrific machine-gun fire from several enemy nests, and after all the members of his squad had become casualties, Private Hunt made his way forward with his automatic rifle. Under a continual rain of machine-gun and shell fire he operated his gun against the enemy until the gun jammed, whereupon he took a shovel, rushed a machine-gun post 75 yards away, and killed the gunner, thereby enabling the continuance of the advance.