Benjamin E. Trerise

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Benjamin E. Trerise, First Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Binarville, France, October 4, 1918, and near St. Juvin, France, October 15, 1918. During an attack in the Argonne Forest, October 4, 1918, Sergeant Trerise was wounded in five places by shrapnel. Although in need of medical attention, he refused to be evacuated but remained steadying his men and holding his unit intact. On October 15, after two attempts at rescue of a wounded man had failed, he advanced through heavy enemy fire and brought the wounded man to shelter.