By direction of the President, under the provisions of the act of Congress approved July 9, 1918 (Bul. No. 43, W.D., 1918), Sergeant William I. Oldweiler (ASN: 1551238), United States Army, is cited by the Commanding General, 3d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, and a silver star may be placed upon the ribbon of the World War I Victory Medals awarded him. While serving with Battery C, 76th Field Artillery Regiment, 3d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, Sergeant Oldweiler showed extraordinary bravery in action near Cierges, France, on 12 October 1918. He took a fourgon with its team of four horses, and also two single mounts, from the battery position to the echelon in daylight over a road in plain view of the enemy. The driver of the fourgon had been killed by a shell and the riders of the single mounts wounded by the constant hostile shelling on this road.