MERRITT, HENRY C.

Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army

Company C, 38th Infantry Regiment, 3d Division, A.E.F.

Date of Action: June 18 – 19, 1918

Citation:

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Henry C. Merritt, Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Gland, France, June 18 – 19, 1918. After successfully crossing the Marne with a night patrol, Lieutenant Merritt captured three prisoners. The patrol was then fired on by a detachment of the enemy, and, in the hand-to-hand conflict which followed, all of the enemy were killed. The patrol returned to our lines with one prisoner, and only two of the members wounded.

General Orders 81, W.D., 1919

Mr. Merritt resided in New York.