Henry C. Merritt

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Henry C. Merritt, Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Gland, France, June 18 – 19, 1918. After successfully crossing the Marne with a night patrol, Lieutenant Merritt captured three prisoners. The patrol was then fired on by a detachment of the enemy, and, in the hand-to-hand conflict which followed, all of the enemy were killed. The patrol returned to our lines with one prisoner, and only two of the members wounded.