Ernest J. Chartier

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Ernest J. Chartier, First Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near St. Marie Farm, France, September 14, 1918. First Sergeant Chartier volunteered to go forward with the patrol of three on two occasions, to destroy machine-gun nests, which were holding up our advance. Both missions were successful, the enemy emplacements being reduced and the advance resumed. Sergeant Chartier exposed himself voluntarily to the fire of the enemy guns that they might be located by the flash.