Roland M. Kerr

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Roland M. Kerr, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Fismette, France, August 11, 1918. Corporal Kerr volunteered to carry a severely wounded soldier to a dressing station across a bridge subjected to intense enemy fire. With three other soldiers, he started across the bridge carrying the wounded man. One stretcher bearer was killed and another wounded, but Corporal Kerr continued with the wounded soldier and after reaching the dressing station returned and rescued the stretcher bearer, wounded on the bridge.