William Ruppel
Home Town: Cincinnati, OH
General Orders 81, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to William Ruppel, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Fontaines, France, November 8, 1918. While in command of a flank platoon of the battalion, Sergeant Ruppel overcame three enemy machine-gun groups, and personally led the flanking patrols when his platoon was held up by enemy machine-gun fire.
