Charlie T. Monroe

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Charlie T. Monroe, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at Mont-de-Sanges, France, September 24, 1918. Sergeant Monroe, then a private, in the absence of a platoon commander took charge of a platoon of Stokes mortars, directing the work of the men under heavy shell fire. Although the shelling was so intense that guns were at times buried, Sergeant Monroe and his men worked unceasingly in placing them back into action. He himself was buried by the explosion of a shell, but on being dug out, continued to direct the work of the men and encouraged them by his fearless example.