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 Ralph Nelson Summerton (ASN: 1248643), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company I, 112th Infantry Regiment, 28th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Chatel-Chehery, France, 6 October 1918. Sergeant Summerton, having on his body several aggravated wounds from an enemy grenade, and being tagged for evacuation for these, as well as for grippe, when assured that his company was about to attack Chatel-Chehery and that it had lost all its officers, went back to his company and courageously and skillfully led it as the first wave, and while so doing was again wounded.