Marshall B. Dudderar

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Marshall B. Dudderar, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Geneve, France, October 7, 1918. Taking command of his company after the company commander had been wounded, Sergeant Dudderar led his men forward in the face of intense fire until further advance was impossible, when he proceeded alone for 25 yards, exposing himself in full view of the enemy in an effort to draw fire and thus locate a machine-gun nest that was causing losses. He returned with the desired information, but in the advance he was mortally wounded and died shortly afterward.