Andrew H. Varner

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Andrew H. Varner, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Bellicourt, France. September 29, 1918. Seeing that a wounded companion had been abandoned by stretcher bearers because of intense shelling, Private First Class Varner took two enemy prisoners, and, going out with them for 75 yards through heavy fire, rescued the wounded soldier.