Henri Lenoir

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Henri Lenoir, Brigadier, French Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Vaux Andigny, France, October 11, 1918. Discovering two of the enemy hiding, Interpreter Lenoir captured them and turned them over to the battalion commander. The information regarding the enemy’s line of defense and movement obtained from these prisoners proved to be correct and of the utmost value. On another occasion he braved the dangers of terrific hostile fire by going ahead of the battalion into a village and aiding the sick and wounded among the inhabitants, disregarding the fact that he was suffering agony from the effects of gas.