Navy Federal Credit Union

Awards Received

  • Distinguished Service Cross

    Service:

    United States Army

    Rank:

    Private

    Regiment:

    5th Regiment (Marines)(Attached)

    Division:

    2d Division, American Expeditionary Forces

    Action Date:

    June 6, 1918

    War Department, General Orders No. 101 (1918)

    The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross to Private Louis H. Harkenrider (ASN: 5554), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Ambulance Service, Fifth Regiment (Marines) (Attached), 2d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, in the vicinity of Chateau-Thierry on 6 June 1918. With a corporal, Private Harkenrider went out into an open field under heavy shell and machine-gun fire and succeeded in bandaging and carrying back to our lines a wounded comrade.