Charles Howard
Home Town: Highwood, MN
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 35, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Charles Howard, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Suippes, France, July 15, 1918. After all communication by telephone had been destroyed by heavy enemy shell fire, Private Howard volunteered and carried a message to the artillery post of command, calling for a barrage at several critical points, through an area subject to terrific shell fire.