Walter F. Burke

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Walter F. Burke, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Vieville-en-Haye, France, September 25 – 26, 1918. During an extreme shelling Private Burke cared for the wounded, although exposed at all times to the hazard of the rain of shells. He was stunned by the concussion of a high-explosive shell, which killed men on both sides of him, but he continued until ordered to the aid post. He volunteered and returned to the lines to relieve a comrade who had fallen from exhaustion.