Hugh J. V. Morrison
Home Town: Poughkeepsie, NY
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 20, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Hugh J. V. Morrison, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action east of Ronssoy, France, September 29, 1918. Private Morrison, with three other soldiers, went out into an open field under heavy shell and machine-gun fire and succeeded in carrying back to our lines four seriously wounded men.