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 Sergeant Westra Hutchinson Higgins (ASN: 60099), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company C, 101st Infantry Regiment, 26th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, north of Verdun, France, 23 October 1918. Sergeant Higgins alone attacked two machine-gun nests which were holding up the advance of his platoon, killing four of the enemy and capturing two.