Joseph H. Laughlin

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Joseph H. Laughlin, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Cantigny, France, May 28 – 30, 1918. In command of the battalion runners, Private Laughlin volunteered to carry messages through the unusually heavy fire. During a very critical period of the fighting, he twice went through a machine-gun barrage to the front line to obtain information when no word from that source had been received for a long period.