Chester H. Elmes
Home Town: Concord Junction, MA
General Orders No. No. 130, W.D., 1918
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Chester H. Elmes, Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Verdun, France, October 12, 1918. Though suffering from a painful wound in the head and ordered to the rear, Lieutenant Elmes reluctantly left his platoon and in spite of weakness carried a wounded soldier under heavy shell fire to a dressing station 500 yards away.
