Fitzhugh L. Minnigerode

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Fitzhugh L. Minnigerode, Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Verdun, France, October 23 – 24, 1918. When his battalion commanders, who had gone forward on a reconnaissance, preparatory to an attack, were prevented from returning by heavy shell and machine-gun fire, Lieutenant Colonel Minnigerode personally led his regiment into position under coyer. With a soldier, he then went forward for a distance of two kilometers under artillery and machine-gun fire, found the battalion commanders, and guided them back to their comrades.