Ervin C. Sheffer
Home Town: York, PA
General Orders No. No. 27, W.D., 1920
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Ervin C. Sheffer, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action north of Cierges, France, October 9, 1918. In the attack on Hill 253, Corporal Sheffer was in command of an automatic rifle squad which was making an attack under enemy rifle and machine-gun fire on an enemy machine-gun nest. After the gunner had been killed, he seized the automatic rifle of the dead gunner and while rushing forward toward the nest was killed by machine-gun fire.
