Fred Engelbrecht
Home Town: Elkton, SD
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. No. 35, W.D., 1920
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Fred Engelbrecht, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Fleville, France, October 4, 1918. When the attack of his company on the second objective was halted by machine-gun fire from the front, Sergeant Engelbrecht with a comrade advanced and destroyed the enemy machine-gun position, forcing four of the enemy to surrender.