Frank M. Brimer

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Frank M. Brimer, First Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Eclisfontaine, France, September 27 & 30, 1918. First Sergeant Brimer exemplified in the highest degree the spirit of bravery, devotion to duty and self- sacrifice. Though he had been badly gassed during the action of September 27, he maintained liaison between his company and the battalion post of command, at one time carrying an important message from the front to the artillery. On September 29, though still suffering from the effects of gas, he refused to leave his company, and on a cold, rainy night brought up fresh ammunition over a rough unfamiliar road in the dark through heavy shell fire. He took part in the action on Tronsal Farm Hill September 30, assisting in the direction and control of fire of the machine guns of his company. In the evening of September 30 he was killed while taking a wounded soldier to the rear.