Henry Darius Macnaughton
Home Town: Grand Rapids, MI
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders 81, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Henry Darius MacNaughton, Captain, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Molain, France, October 17, 1918. Advancing for 100 yards under heavy shell and machine-gun fire, Captain MacNaughton went with a soldier to the aid of a wounded man who had a leg blown off by an antitank shell. Showing utter disregard for personal danger, Captain McNaughton dressed the wound of the soldier, who had fallen near the tank which was still being shelled, and then carried the wounded man to safety.