Harry W. Fanning
Home Town: Baltimore, MD
General Orders No. No. 22, W.D., 1929
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Harry W. Fanning, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Le Chamois, France, March 5, 1918. Corporal Fanning was in charge of a trench mortar emplacement which was firing a barrage against an enemy raid. One of the bombs from the mortar fell on the side of the emplacement and was rolling into the emplacement where the gun crew and four other men were located. Corporal Fanning rushed across the emplacement, seized the bomb as it was rolling, and unscrewed the fuze, thereby exposing himself to great danger and by his heroic action saving the lives of his comrades in the emplacement.
