Charles E. Thorne

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Charles E. Thorne, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Nantillois, France, September 29, 1918. While on duty with his battery as a lineman, Private Thorne saw a soldier fall wounded by shell fragments. Leaving his shelter, Private Thorne went through concentrated shell fire to the assistance of the wounded soldier and in endeavoring to rescue him was himself killed by the explosion of a shell.