Charles C. Highley

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Charles C. Highley, First Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Immecourt, France, November 1, 1918. In the face of heavy machine-gun fire Lieutenant Highley personally led his platoon, or elements thereof, against several enemy machine-gun nests, putting out of action and capturing 15 guns with 50 prisoners. Later in the day he led a squad of men in an attack on a battery of enemy field pieces seen coming out of a wood south of Sivry, and succeeded in capturing the three pieces of artillery, together with 55 prisoners and 27 horses.