Joseph N. Kerwin

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Joseph N. Kerwin, Sergeant First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at Audenarde, Belgium, November 1, 1918. Sergeant Kerwin volunteered to accompany an officer and three other soldiers on a reconnaissance patrol of the city of Audenarde. Entering under heavy shell fire, the party reconnoitered the city for seven hours, while it was still being patrolled by the enemy, and advanced two kilometers in front of our own outposts and beyond those of the enemy.