Ralph N. Summerton

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Ralph N. Summerton, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Chatel-Chehery, France, October 6, 1918. Sergeant Summerton, having on his body several aggravated wounds from an enemy grenade, and being tagged for evacuation for these, as well as for grippe, when assured that his company was about to attack Chatel-Chehery and that it had lost all its officers, went back to his company and courageously and skillfully led it as the first wave, and while so doing was again wounded.