Matthew G. Grahek

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Matthew G. Grahek, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Obozerskaya, Russia, September 29, 1918. Sergeant Grahek voluntarily went forward about 150 yards in advance of our line, exposed to heavy machine-gun and artillery fire, and rescued a wounded comrade. Again, on April 1, 1919, near Bolsheozerka, Russia, he advanced alone with a Lewis gun against enemy snipers concealed in a ditch and routed them.