Walter Siebert
Home Town: Shepley, WI
General Orders 66, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Walter Siebert, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Gesnes, France, October 16, 1918. Locating an enemy machine-gun nest, Private Siebert advanced on it alone and, by accurate fire from his automatic rifle, killed or wounded the members of the crew, thereby saving his company heavy casualties.
