Mahlon H. Harris
Home Town: Powell, PA
General Orders No. No. 28, W.D., 1921
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Mahlon H. Harris, First Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Grand Pre, France, October 26, 1918. During the assault on the citadel Lieutenant Harris gallantly led his company through heavy enemy fire. Learning that the adjoining company had met with extraordinarily heavy machine-gun fire which had killed all of its officers and was holding up the company, he, of his own volition, passed through deadly fire, reorganized this adjoining company and led it, with his own, to the objective. This officer was among the first to scale the wall of the citadel.
