Charles H. Getchell

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Charles H. Getchell, Mess Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Pannes, France, September 21, 1918. While the terrain was under heavy artillery fire from the enemy, Sergeant Getchell, observing some wounded men lying in the open without attention, ran to their aid of his own volition, administered to their wounds, and helped carry them to a place of safety, after which he again went out into the shell-swept area and made a careful reconnaissance of the fields, searching for any other casualties which he might have overlooked.