Clarence R. Christman

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Clarence R. Christman, Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Soissons, France, July 22, 1918. By leading one of his machine guns in advance of the Infantry through a wheat field south of Soissons, Second Lieutenant Christman succeeded in obtaining a position of advantage from which he cleaned out an enemy trench and forced out of action a hostile machine gun which had been holding up the advance of our infantry.