Ernest E. Rudolph
Home Town: Denver, CO
General Orders No. 126, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Ernest E. Rudolph, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Varennes, France, September 26, 1918. Acting voluntarily, Corporal Rudolph and two other soldiers went out under heavy artillery and machine-gun fire and attacked an enemy machine-gun nest, killing four of the crew and capturing eleven prisoners, together with the machine gun.
