Charles Schmitz
Home Town: Saginaw, MI
General Orders No. 126, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Charles Schmitz, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Tilly, Marie Louise sector, France, April 14, 1918. During an attack on his company by superior forces, Private Schmitz advanced single handed against five Germans who had taken cover in a shell hole and killed or wounded all of them with an automatic rifle.
