Henry A. Lait

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Henry A. Lait, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near St. Remy, France, September 12, 1918. Private Lait, with comrades, advanced into the open and fired an automatic rifle on an enemy machine-gun emplacement, thereby drawing the machine-gun fire to themselves and enabling the platoon, which had been exposed to an enfilading fire, to flank the gun and put it out of action. Private Lait was killed by a machine-gun bullet during the action.