Michel Burel

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Michel Burel, Private First Class, French Army, for repeated acts of extraordinary heroism in action at Chateau-Thierry, France, July 25 – 26, and at St. Mihiel, France, October 5 – 8, 1918. In the attack on Chateau-Thierry, Private Burel was at all times in the very thickest of the struggle, exhibiting singular valor and devotion to duty. During the attack on St. Mihiel he alone took a hostile machine gun, and a few days later put to rout 10 of the enemy, killing one during the encounter.