Albert B. Brown

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Albert B. Brown, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near St. Gilles, south of Fismes, France, August 7 and 14, 1918. When a bombardment was laid down on the batteries of his regiment Sergeant Brown, on his own initiative, rushed his detachment to the assistance of the wounded, administering first aid and evacuating the wounded in spite of continued enemy shelling. On another occasion, when he was severely gassed and blinded by the explosion of a mustard gas shell, he made his way to a telephone and summoned medical assistance for the wounded, exposing himself to the increased danger from the effect of gas in order that the other wounded might be cared for.