Frank Sembertrant

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Frank Sembertrant, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Waereghem, Belgium, October 31, 1918. Having set up his gun in the open near the enemy wire, at a range of less than 200 meters from the enemy and in the face of direct machine-gun fire, Private Sembertrant offered a most stubborn resistance to the enemy despite the fact that his sergeant had been killed and is gun damaged by the heavy fire. He continued until one gunner had been killed and the fire from another gun silenced.