Harry V. Sessions

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Harry V. Sessions, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action during the Meuse-Argonne offensive, France, October 5 – November 11, 1918. When his battery, in direct support of the Infantry in front of Romagne, suffered 35 percent casualties, Sergeant Sessions continually exposed himself to violent artillery and machine-gun fire in order to maintain the morale of his section. Wounded early in November, he concealed this fact and although suffering greatly continued effectively to command his section, and refused to be relieved until after the armistice when he collapsed and was ordered evacuated.