Charles B. Rymer

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Charles B. Rymer, Bugler, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Very, France, September 26, 1918. Bugler Rymer was a member of a liaison group who worked their way 1,000 yards in advance of their first wave. Surrounded by machine-gun fire, they were forced to take refuge in a trench. Bugler Rymer worked his way along the trench to a clump of woods, where he captured a German officer alone. Assisted by two other soldiers, he later killed an enemy machine-gunner, and took 23 prisoners.