Henry W. Greene
Distinguished Service Cross
U.S. Army
World War I
General Orders No. No. 16, W.D., 1920
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Henry W. Greene, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action south of Ronssoy, France, September 28, 1918. Sergeant Greene left the shelter of a trench and went forward some 35 yards and assisted a wounded soldier to shelter. This act was performed shortly after daybreak at a time when the location of the wounded man and the trench were being swept by hostile fire.