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Distinguished Service Cross Recipients

About the Distinguished Service Cross

Benton County

   
      Harry E. Hample (army serial No. 2159889), private, first class, Company C, 131st Infantry. For extraordinary heroism in action near Chipilly Ridge, France, August 10-19, 1918. He volunteered repeatedly to carry messages over ground swept by heavy machine gun and artillery fire. He displayed marked personal courage, accomplishing every mission he was given.

Residence at enlistment: Watkins, Iowa (Benton co)
   

 

~source: Official Register, State of Iowa 1921-1922, Twenty-Ninth Number, Military Decorations of Iowans in the World War, pg. 360-376

~ Transcribed and contributed by Sharyl Ferrall for Iowa in the Great War Special Project