Albert W. Kenner

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Albert W. Kenner, Major (Medical Corps), U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Soissons, France, July 22, 1918. Learning that his regimental commander had been mortally, Major Kenner voluntarily went through machine-gun fire beyond the front lines in the hope of helping him. Finding his colonel dead, he recovered the body, in spite of the danger to which such action subjected him.