Walter F. Alt

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Walter F. Alt, First Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Bois-de-Loges, France, November 1, 1918. With another soldier, First Sergeant Alt went to the rescue of an officer and several men of his company who had been severely wounded and were lying in some bushes more than 100 yards to the front. Crossing and re-crossing five times an open area which was under a heavy high-explosive shell fire and swept by machine-gun fire, he brought in the officer and wounded men of the part. The soldier who accompanied Sergeant Alt was instantly killed by machine-gun fire in the attempt to effect the rescue.