Carl Mulrain

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Carl Mulrain, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Ville-Savoye, France, August 23, 1918. While the 1st Battalion of his regiment was making an attack to regain ground from the enemy in the outpost zone along the Vesle river, Private Mulrain continued to advance when he discovered that three enemy machine guns occupied the high ground in front of him. With great courage and utter disregard for his own safety he continued to go forward in the face of concentrated enemy machine-gun fire, thus helping materially to force the enemy to evacuate his machine-gun emplacement, though himself killed by a machine-gun bullet.