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 Private First Class Selmo Fulton (ASN: 1464582), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Battery C, 129th Field Artillery, 35th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Charpentry, France, 29 September 1918. When the rest of the gun squad was wiped out by heavy shelling and he himself had been wounded, Private Fulton continued to fire his piece single-handed until another gun squad was formed.