Orrie Thompson

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Orrie Thompson, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action in the woods north of Cierges, northeast of Chateau-Thierry, France, on August 1, 1918. After his company had entered the woods north of Cierges, Sergeant Thompson and another soldier maneuvered around a machine-gun, which was causing many casualties in the company, and reached a shell hole after crossing an open space that was swept by hostile fire. From here they killed the crew of the machine-gun, captured the gun, and turned it on the enemy.