Kit R. Varney

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Kit R. Varney, Captain, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Ronssoy, France, September 29, 1919. When a dense fog and a smoke barrage had made visibility so poor that it was difficult to get his tanks into action, Captain Varney personally led his machines on foot several hundred yards in advance of the first wave of infantry, in the face of deadly artillery and machine-gun fire. He thus enabled his tanks to maintain their direction and cleared a path for the infantry, but in accomplishing this heroic task he was killed.