Elmer Zeiler
Home Town: Fairhaven, PA
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 21, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Elmer Zeiler, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Medeah Ferme, France, October 3, 1918. Corporal Zeiler, together with four other men, charged a machine-gun nest containing three heavy machine-guns and captured the three guns and 20 prisoners.