Michael Carter
Home Town: Los Angeles, CA
General Orders No. 15, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Michael Carter, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Gesnes, France, September 28, 1918. Corporal Carter, attached to the signal section of the attacking battalion, repeatedly spliced telephone wires in the midst of heavy artillery and machine-gun fire during the attack, displaying at all times exceptional coolness and personal bravery and aiding materially in maintaining communication between battalion and regimental command posts.
