Andrews, Charles Edward
Sergeant first class, 198641, Company C, 2d Field Signal Battalion, 1st Divisioin.
Silver Star. General Orders No. 91, Headquarters 1st Division, A.E.F., Germany, December 8, 1918: The Division Commander cites the following officers and men of this command for conspicuous gallantry and heroism in the recent operations between the Argonne and the Meuse, October 4 to 12, 1918: ..........Sergeant Charles E. Andres, Company C, 2d Field Battalion, Signal Corps, throughout the action did remarkably efficient and successful work in constructing and maintaining telephone lines to the forward battalion through constant heavy shell and direct machine-gun fire ........By command of Major General McGlachlin, Stephen O. Fuqua, Chief of Staff. Official: W.R. Wheeler, Lieutenant Colonel, Infantry, U.S. Army, Division Adjutant.
Record. Born July 26, 1897, Decatur; son of Lewis and Ollie (Drummond) Andrews. Telephone installer, Marion. Enlisted March 19, 1917, Fort Thomas, Ky. Training: Fort Brown, Tex.; Gondrecourt, France. Assigned to Company C, 2d Field Battalion; to Headquarters Detachment, 2d Field Signal Battalion. Sergeant, December, 1917; sergeant first class, April, 1918. Overseas June 12, 1917 - January 24, 1920. Battles: Sommerviller, Ansauville, Cantigy, Montdidier-Noyon, Aisne-Marne, Saizerais, St. Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne. Gassed. In Army of Occupation. Discharged April 4, 1920.
Married Murl Miller. Sons, James Lee, Edward Warren; daughter, Norma Jane. Marion.