Abner H. Platt

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Abner H. Platt, Captain, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near St. Souplet, France, October 17, 1918. Captain Platt, while moving forward in the attack with machine-gun units, encountered a number of stragglers in a sunken road. He organized these men into a company and led them in attacking waves. Later he personally led a patrol which located and silenced enemy machine guns which were firing from a flank position.