Stacy L. Harding

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Stacy L. Harding, Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Malancourt, and Nantillois, France, September 26 to October 11, 1918. On duty as artillery information officer, Lieutenant Harding displayed the utmost courage, fortitude and devotion to duty in maintaining liaison between the infantry and artillery, going repeatedly to the front line and carrying messages for both infantry and artillery commanders. In seeking the location of an infantry company, under heavy machine-gun and artillery fire, Lieutenant Harding searched woods on the Cote Dame Marie, as far as the enemy’s wire, where he was killed by machine-gun fire.