Oliver Sharrar

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Oliver Sharrar, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at Cornay, France, October 9 – 10, 1918. After fighting for six hours, Corporal Sharrar volunteered to accompany 15 other soldiers and an officer on a night patrol of Cornay, which was held by many enemy machine-gun posts. The party worked from 11 o’clock at night until next morning at clearing buildings and dugouts of the enemy, capturing 65 prisoners and two machine guns. With six others, Corporal Sharrar volunteered and entered a dugout where 23 prisoners were captured. He was wounded while leaving the town, but he refused to go to the aid station until the prisoners had been delivered at brigade headquarters.