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 Bugler Charles B. Rymer (ASN: 1452467), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company F, 138th Infantry Regiment, 35th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Very, France, 26 September 1918. Bugler Rymer was a member of a liaison group who worked their way 1,000 yards in advance of their first wave. Surrounded by machine-gun fire, they were forced to take refuge in a trench. Bugler Rymer worked his way along the trench to a clump of woods, where he captured a German officer alone. Assisted by two other soldiers, he later killed an enemy machine-gunner, and took 23 prisoners.