Charles L. Draper
Home Town: Carthage, NY
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. No. 16, W.D., 1920
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Charles L. Draper, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Ronssoy, France, September 29, 1918. After his company had passed beyond the first line of the enemy’s resistance and at a time when hostile machine-gun fire presented the most formidable resistance to the advance, Private Draper, single- handed, rushed a hostile machine-gun position, killed both of its defenders, and captured the gun.