Harry J. Ollrich

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Harry J. Ollrich, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action during the advance across the River Ourcq and from Cierges to Fismes, France, July 31 to August 4, 1918. Many times daily during this advance Private Ollrich displayed an entire disregard of personal danger in the carrying of messages through enemy barrages. Later in the fighting near Fismes, when it became necessary to send an important message to the commanding officer of the battalion, although Private Ollrich had been on constant duty night and day for four days, he attempted to deliver the message but was killed while crossing a shell-swept zone.