Alfred Kayser

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Alfred Kayser, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Mont St. Pere, Marne, France, July 21, 1918. Private Kayser, with an automatic rifle, went forward in advance of our line and opened fire on an enemy machine-gun position in order to cover the flank attack of another platoon. Although mortally wounded, he continued to fire until the platoon had completed its flanking movement.