Albert C. Painsipp
Home Town: Batavia, IL
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 99, W.D., 1918
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Albert C. Painsipp, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at Hamel, Belgium, July 4, 1918. Single-handed Corporal Painsipp attacked a German machine-gun emplacement. Although wounded in the leg, when a machine-gun was trained upon him, he boldly attacked it with hand grenades and drove off the crew.