Bert L. Stewart

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Bert L. Stewart, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Medeah Ferme, France, October 3, 1918. After his officer had been wounded by shell fire, Corporal Stewart, suffering from seven wounds about the knee from the same shell, took command of his platoon, led it in the assault to the objective, and established it in line.