Carl W. T. Prause

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Carl W. T. Prause, Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Vaux-Andigny, France, October 11, 1918, While leading his company in attack, Lieutenant Prause was wounded by shell fire, but he remained for three days thereafter without medical aid directing the steady progress of his command in the face of the enemy’s determined resistance.