Harold R. Forster
Home Town: Clyde, NY
General Orders No. 20, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Harold R. Forster, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action east of Ronssoy, France, September 29, 1918. During the operations against the Hindenburg line, when the advance of his company was held up by an enemy machine- gun nest, Corporal Forster crawled forward to a small shell hole, killed four of the German machine gunners with a Lewis gun and put their gun out of action, thereby permitting the advance to continue. In accomplishing this courageous act, he was seriously wounded.
