William R. Myers

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to William R. Myers, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Baulny, France, September 28, 1918. Early on the morning of September 28, Sergeant Myers was wounded in the shoulder by a machine-gun bullet. In spite of his wound he continued under heavy shell and machine-gun fire, to render first aid to the wounded until wounded a second time by a shell fragment.