Henry Daniel
Home Town: Crete, NE
General Orders No. 44, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Henry Daniel, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near St. Eugene, France, July 9, 1918. Private Daniel repeatedly volunteered and carried important messages four kilometers through heavy shell fire near the enemy’s lines. On one trip he found a wounded soldier and carried him through an enemy barrage to the dressing station.
