Grover C. Rippetoe
Home Town: Charleston, WV
General Orders No. 15, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Grover C. Rippetoe, First Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Soissons, France, July 18 – 22, 1918. After all the other officers of his company had been killed First Lieutenant Rippetoe took command, attacked a machine-gun nest, and captured the gun with its crew. Gassed and suffering from shell shock, he refused to quit his post until the company was relieved.
