Walter Currie

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Walter Currie, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Ville-Savoye, France, August 7, 1918. On the Vesle River, when his company was in need of ammunition and after several men had been killed in the attempt to secure it, Private Currie volunteered and went for ammunition across an open field, swept by machine-gun fire. He successfully returned with the ammunition, thereby greatly assisting his company to hold its position. He was severely wounded near Brieulles while making a gallant stand against the enemy with twelve other men, the only survivors of his platoon.