The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Cross to Lieutenant, Junior Grade (ChC) Harris Anthony Darche, United States Navy, for extraordinary heroism while attached to the Sixth Regiment (Marines), 2d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, in rendering services difficult to measure in the operations against the enemy from June 1 to 14 June 1918, when his efforts in searching for and burying the dead, in giving cheer and spiritual comfort to the fighting troops, in handling working parties and in aiding the surgeons were tireless; and he performed the last rites of the church under fire.



