Herald E. Bolin

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Herald E. Bolin, Battalion Sergeant Major, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at Waereghem, Belgium, October 31, 1918. a wounded soldier lying in an exposed position, Sergeant Major Bolin started to go to the former’s assistance, and as he did so was knocked down by a bullet which struck him in the hip. He nevertheless continued on in the face of the dangerous fire and succeeded in moving his wounded comrade to shelter before attending to his own wound. Although he was suffering intense pain, he refused to go to the rear, but remained constantly at his post under artillery and machine-gun fire, having been on strenuous duty and without sleep for two days.