Charles M. Richardson

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Charles M. Richardson, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Fismette, France, August 9, 1918. Sergeant Richardson volunteered to go out in the open, with a comrade, under hostile machine-gun fire to rescue a wounded soldier. As they were carrying the later to shelter, he was again struck by a machine gun bullet and killed, and the companion also being wounded, was dragged to safety by Sergeant Richardson.