Everett Glee Dressel

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Everett Glee Dressel, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Juvigny, France, August 31, 1918. After his company had captured two enemy fieldpieces and a large quantity of ammunition, enemy artillery attempted to blow up the ammunition with incendiary shells. At great risk of his life from the explosion of shells and grenades, he extinguished the fires, thereby insuring the safety of his comrades and the retention by his company of its advanced position.