Harvey H. Holmes

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Harvey H. Holmes, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Mezy, France, July 15 – 19, 1918. Corporal Holmes observed that a number of Germans were moving toward a clump of bushes near our front during the battle of the Marne. With a patrol of his men Corporal Holmes rushed the position under heavy machine-gun fire and captured 60 prisoners.