Louis H. Harkenrider
Home Town: Griffith, IN
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. No. 101, W.D., 1918
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Louis H. Harkenrider, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action in the vicinity of Chateau-Thierry on June 6, 1918. With a corporal, Private Harkenrider went out into an open field under heavy shell and machine-gun fire and succeeded in bandaging and carrying back to our lines a wounded comrade.