Albert C. Rubel
Home Town: Indianapolis, IN
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 37, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Albert C. Rubel, Captain, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Montfaucon, France, September 26, 1918. While reconnoitering to locate the Avocourt-Malancourt Road Captain Rubel was held up by an enemy machine-gun on the parapet of a trench running parallel to the road. He proceeded ahead of two men of his platoon and personally disposed of two German gunners.