Charles L. Timm

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Charles L. Timm, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Crepion, France, October 23, 1918. Corporal Timm, with the assistance of one other soldier, captured three enemy machine-guns and their crews which had held up the advance of his company. He was later killed in action in the Bois-de-la Reine.