Charles H. Knapp

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Charles H. Knapp, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action northwest of Aincreville, France, November 2, 1918. Private Knapp took command of Company B, after all the officers were killed or wounded, and led his company to the attack. When held up by machine-gun fire from enemy nest, he led out a patrol against it, capturing the guns and killing the crew. Again on November 6 at Hill Cote St. Germaine he assumed command of the company and repulsed a strong enemy counterattack.