Mellen F. Tuttle

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Mellen F. Tuttle, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action on Hill 190, near Chateau-Thierry, France, July 20, 1918. When all of the men of the automatic-rifle team of which he was a member had been wounded, Private Tuttle voluntarily advanced alone, attacked a number of enemy machine-gun nests which were holding up the advance, and forced the enemy to retreat, thereby making possible the continued forward movement of his detachment.