Max F. Moritz

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Max F. Moritz, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Mont St. Pere, France, July 22, 1918. After his platoon had captured a German field piece in the woods near Mont St. Pere and returned to the town, Sergeant Moritz voluntarily remained behind with a wounded comrade, in a woods infested by enemy snipers, and after nightfall brought the wounded man to a place of safety.