Harry S. Whitthorne

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Harry S. Whitthorne, Captain, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Exermont, France, September 28, 1918, and October 1, 1918. Captain Whitthorne organized a detachment to go 1200 yards in front of our lines to rescue the wounded in a wood previously occupied. He brought back over 20 of the wounded, who would otherwise have been captured or died from exposure, the rescue being effected under heavy machine-gun and artillery fire. Later, when he was the only officer with the battalion, he refused to be evacuated, though wounded and burned by mustard gas, remaining in command until the battalion was relieved.