Harold A. Hudson

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Harold A. Hudson, Sergeant First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Bellicourt, France, September 29, 1918. Sergeant Hudson and a number of other members of a signal detachment were wounded by shell fire while proceeding through an enemy counter-barrage to the front line, but disregarding his own injuries this soldier administered first aid to his wounded comrades and then extended a telephone line to the advance message center, and, with five men, maintained and operated the message center.