Fred Sherry Smith

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Fred Sherry Smith, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Remonville, France, November 1, 1918. Private Smith was a member of a machine- gun crew, firing at close range from a shell hole in an open field when their gun became disabled. Thereupon he and two other soldiers advanced with pistols upon the enemy machine-gun nest, at which they had been firing, and captured it, with three guns and nine prisoners. Putting one of the captured guns into immediate action against the enemy, they enabled the infantry to advance with a minimum of casualties. This soldier was killed next day when he went out from cover to warn some comrades that they were in the line of fire from his gun.