Harold L. Shipman
Home Town: Buffalo, NY
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 20, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Harold L. Shipman, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action east of Ronssoy, France, September 29, 1918. during the operations against the Hindenburg line Private Shipman, a Lewis gunner, exhibited great courage and dash when a party of about 40 German prisoners, seeing their guards killed by German snipers while going to the rear, seized rifles and opened fire on the Americans. Private Shipman rushed forward with his Lewis gun and put the entire group out of action. During the engagement he also silenced three enemy machine-gun positions.