Harry Melvin Woods

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Harry Melvin Woods, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Montfaucon, France, September 29, 1918. While his position was under heavy and continuous bombardment of both gas and high-explosive shells he voluntarily left is dugout and put gas masks on nine soldiers, giving his own mask to one of them, and thus saving their Lives. After being severely gassed by the explosion of a shell, one piece of which struck him, he continued to administer aid to the other wounded, and quit when his eyes were swelling shut and he was completely exhausted.