Grover C. Sheckart

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Grover C. Sheckart, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Montfaucon, France, September 29, 1918. After his commanding officer had been wounded and taken from the field, Sergeant Sheckart reorganized two platoons of his company and led them into a thick woods against strong machine-gun nests. He advanced alone against a machine-gun crew, killed the officer in charge, and took four prisoners. He continued to lead his men during the advance of that day, in spite of a wound in the foot, which caused his evacuation in the evening.