Harry Leslie Calvin

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Harry Leslie Calvin, Captain, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Tigny, France, July 21, 1918. With utter disregard for personal danger, Captain Calvin passed for 200 yards under intense artillery and machine-gun fire to rescue a wounded officer. Finding the wounded officer could only be moved on a stretcher, he placed him in a shell hole and started back for one. He was severely wounded in the head, falling unconscious. Recovering a half hour later, he tried to go back to rescue the wounded officer, but again fell senseless.