Charles S. Hoover
Home Town: Columbus, OH
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 37, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Charles S. Hoover, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Brabant-sur- Meuse, France, October 23, 1918. Sergeant Hoover, during the offensive action in the Boissois Bois was in charge of two trench mortars. Wounded by shrapnel and knocked down by the explosion of bombs, he returned to the one mortar that was undamaged and continued to fire until it was put out of action.