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Sergeant Mestrovitch earned the Medal of Honor for heroism near Fismette, France, during intense assaults upon enemy positions. Seeing his company commander lying wounded 30 yards in front of the line after his company had withdrawn to a sheltered position behind a stone wall, Sergeant Mestrovitch voluntarily left cover and crawled through heavy machinegun and shell fire to where the officer lay. He took the officer upon his back and crawled to a place of safety, where he administered first-aid treatment, his exceptional heroism saving the officer's life.
After surviving numerous combat actions, Sergeant Mestrovich
died a victim of the influenza epidemic.
