Herbert W. Flesher

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Herbert W. Flesher, Sergeant First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Heuvel, Belgium, November 2, 1918. Sergeant Flesher, with two other soldiers, crossed the Scheldt River after two attempts and succeeded in stretching a line for the bridge across the stream. They were discovered and fired upon by the enemy, but they continued at work driving stakes and made a second trip across the river to obtain wire, despite the fact that a violent artillery barrage had been laid down on their positions.