Harry Rogers

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Harry Rogers, Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Binarville, France, October 2 – 6, 1918. Second Lieutenant Rogers was in command of a detachment comprising part of two battalions which were cut off and surrounded by the enemy in the Argonne Forest, France. During the days of the isolation from friendly troops, he was on the exposed flank without food. Although under a heavy concentration of fire from enemy machine-guns and snipers, by his personal example of calmness he kept his men in order and helped repel counterattacks. This intrepid officer was killed in action October 6, 1918.