Harry P. Simpson
Home Town: Covington, GA
General Orders No. 44, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Harry P. Simpson, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Le Channel, France, July 28, 1918. After his commanding officer and 32 members of his battery had been wounded by a bomb from an enemy plane, Sergeant Simpson, himself wounded, assisted in the evacuation of the wounded, after which he remained until his piece was placed in a new position, before he retired for treatment.
