Verne E. Rogers
Home Town: New Athens, OH
General Orders No. 37, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Verne E. Rogers, Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Avillers, France, September 13, 1918. When a section of his platoon was being held up by machine-gun fire, Lieutenant Rogers directed an attack on the nest, while he and a corporal attacked from the opposite side, driving out and capturing three of the enemy.
