The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross to Mess Sergeant Charles H. Getchell (ASN: 146244), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Battery F, 151st Field Artillery, 42d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Pannes, France, 21 September 1918. While the terrain was under heavy artillery fire from the enemy, Sergeant Getchell, observing some wounded men lying in the open without attention, ran to their aid of his own volition, administered to their wounds, and helped carry them to a place of safety, after which he again went out into the shell-swept area and made a careful reconnaissance of the fields, searching for any other casualties which he might have overlooked.