Charles M. Tarter
Home Town: Chapman, KS
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 59, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Charles M. Tarter, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at Vaux, France, on July 1, 1918. When his captain was wounded, Sergeant Tarter went out under violent machine-gun fire to bring the officer to shelter and was severely wounded himself while performing this heroic act.