Gilbert D. Short

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Gilbert D. Short, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Vaux- Andigny, France, October 19, 1918. When the position of his company had become untenable because of enemy machine-gun and artillery fire, Private Short, with another soldier, the sole survivors of a Lewis machine-gun team, covered the retreat of their company. Clinging to their advanced post throughout the day, they took up the advance with the company at dusk that evening.