Henry J. Garst
Home Town: St. Louis, MO
General Orders No. 46, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Henry J. Garst, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Bazoches, France, August 9, 1918. Responding to a call for volunteers to destroy a hostile machine- gun, Corporal Garst, with two other soldiers, boldly went forward through machine-gun fire and accomplished this mission.
