Claud E. Cherry

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Claud E. Cherry, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near St. Thibaut, France, August 7, 1918. Sergeant Cherry commanded the third platoon of his company during the engagement hear St. Thibaut. On August 7, 1918, he crossed the Vesle River and took up a position in, front of his own infantry on terrain constantly swept by heavy artillery, machine-gun, and sniper fire and directed his guns so skillfully as to silence a machine-gun nest and make possible the Infantry advance. His conspicuous courage was an inspiration to his men. This gallant soldier was killed on August 9, 1918, by a fragment from an aerial bomb.