Harold L. Hemingway

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Harold L. Hemingway, First Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action in the vicinity of St. Remy, France, September 12, 1918. In advancing with his company under heavy shell and machine-gun fire Lieutenant Hemingway boldly exposed himself, and his personal conduct was a splendid example of fearlessness to all his men. His company having been held up by enemy barbed-wire entanglements, and two enlisted men having been wounded at the enemy’s wire, Lieutenant Hemingway exposed himself to machine-gun fire to advance in front of the front line in order to rescue the two wounded members of his company.