Paul R. Knight

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Paul R. Knight, First Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Binarville, France, October 3 – 5, 1918. Although he had been twice wounded, First Lieutenant Knight led his company in four attempts to cut through a heavy barbed-wire entanglement to capture Hill 205 in the Forest of Argonne, France, in order to reach two battalions of his regiment which had been cut off by the enemy.