James I. Mestrovitch

James I. Mestrovitch (22 May 1894 - 4 November 1918) was a Sergeant in the United States Army who received America's highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor— for his actions in World War I. Sgt Mestrovitch, an ethnic Serb, was born in the Principality of Montenegro, and after immigrating to the United States in 1913 lived in Fresno, California. He enlisted in the U.S. Army at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He died from the Spanish flu one week before the armistice.

Medal of Honor citation

 * Rank and organization: Sergeant, U.S. Army, Company C, 111th Infantry, 28th Division.
 * Place and date: At Fismette, France, 10 August 1918.
 * Entered service at: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
 * Birth: Montenegro.
 * Nationality: Serb
 * General Order No.20, Department of War, 1919.

Citation

"Seeing his company commander Iying wounded 30 yards in front of the line after his company had withdrawn to a sheltered position behind a stone wall, Sgt. 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."