Stanley F. Cerbin

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Stanley F. Cerbin, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Exermont, France, October 4 and 5, 1918. On October 4, Sergeant Cerbin led a small group through heavy fire and captured an enemy machine-gun nest with its crew of six men. The following day he again assisted in the capture of a machine-gun nest. Sergeant Cerbin later, after all officers had become casualties, took command of the company and led it forward to its objective.