Clifford R. Haskins
Home Town: Elmwood, CT
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 125, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Clifford R. Haskins, Wagoner, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Trugny, France, July 22, 1918. Wagoner Haskins was seriously wounded in the leg while placing injured soldiers in his ambulance. Nevertheless, he insisted on driving the machine to the dressing station and continued the work of evacuating the wounded until exhausted from loss of blood.