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 Sergeant Charles Mearl Richardson (ASN: 1247262), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company C, 112th Infantry Regiment, 28th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Fismette, France, 9 August 1918. Sergeant Richardson volunteered to go out in the open, with a comrade, under hostile machine-gun fire to rescue a wounded soldier. As they were carrying the later to shelter, he was again struck by a machine gun bullet and killed, and the companion also being wounded, was dragged to safety by Sergeant Richardson.