Joseph Charles
Home Town: Kingston, NY
General Orders No. 20, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Joseph Charles, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action in the Forest of Argonne, France, October 2, 1918. When his company was held up by barbed wire during an attack on hostile machine guns, Private Charles displayed marked courage in crawling over the wire to the dugout occupied by the enemy and capturing single-handed 20 prisoners and a machine gun.
