William Shefrin

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to William Shefrin, Cook, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action in the Ravine de L’Homme Mort near Vauxcere, between the Vesle and Aisne Rivers, September 5, 1918. After both of his feet had been blown off by a bursting shell Cook Shefrin, although mortally wounded, coolly directed the work of reselling and caring for other wounded men of the kitchen detachment who had been wounded when his transport was struck.