Thomas H. Hall

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Thomas H. Hall, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Kleithoek, Belgium, October 31, 1918. When the attack of his battalion was held up by heavy fire from an enemy machine gun nest, Private First Class Hall led a detail of two other enlisted men for 200 yards across an open field swept by the enemy fire, to a position on the flank within 50 yards of the machine gun nest, where, although slightly wounded, with utter disregard of his personal safety, he stood up in the face of heavy fire from both flanks and, firing as he ran, charged the position forcing the surrender of 13 of the enemy, therein, thus silencing their two machine guns. After removing valuable documents from the body of a fallen enemy officer, Private First Class Hall forced his prisoners to take up their machine guns and accompany him to his own lines through an intense enemy fire by which one of the prisoners was wounded.

Decorations U.S. Army, Supplement IV, 1940