Herbert B. Kendal

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Herbert B. Kendal, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Bois-de-St. Remy, France, September 12, 1918. While under heavy fire, Private Kendal cut through the opening through the enemy’s wire entanglements and then crawled through the opening he had made, leading a small detail against an enemy machine-gun, which he flanked and put out of action. With two companions, he destroyed a second emplacement and, while advancing upon a third, was severely wounded by shell fire.