Harold De La Monte Hall
Home Town: Buffalo, WV
General Orders No. 37, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Harold De La Monte Hall, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Bois-de-Brieulles, France, September 29, 1918. When his company was in a perilous position Private Hall volunteered and carried a message to battalion headquarters, a distance of 1,000 yards, under heavy artillery and machine-gun fire. On his return journey he was killed.
