Herbert H. Kidwell

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Herbert H. Kidwell, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Cierges, France, October 4, 1918. When the patrol of which he was a member, whose mission it was to establish communication with the 4th Infantry, encountered heavy enemy machine-gun and artillery fire from all sides, it became necessary to take shelter in a shell hole. After two other members of the patrol had been unable to advance, Sergeant Kidwell alone, with exceptional courage and coolness, unflinchingly went forward through the enemy fire and succeeded in completing the mission.