Herman M. Sell

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Herman M. Sell, First Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action in La Cendriere Woods, near Vauxere, between the Vesle and the Aisne, France, September 6, 1918. First Sergeant Sell volunteered to deliver a message of great importance to his battalion commander after sis runners, who had been sent with the same message, failed to return. He voluntarily crossed 600 yards of open field swept by shell and machine-gun fire, reached his destination, accomplished his mission, and returned to his company with information of vital importance.