Pearl D. Chartier
Home Town: Concordia, KS
General Orders 70, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Pearl D. Chartier, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Charpentry, France, September 27, 1918. Private Chartier voluntarily, went forward in the face of intense artillery and machine-gun fire and cut gaps through wire entanglements, in order to facilitate the advance of his battalion.
