Walter J. Steede

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Walter J. Steede, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action in the Forest De Fere, near Nesles, northeast of Chateau-Thierry, France, July 26 to August 2, 1918. Private Steede distinguished himself during the advance of his regiment in the Forest De Fere, by his voluntary, authorized and untiring efforts in carrying in the wounded, both by day and by night, under the most severe and dangerous circumstances, and especially when the town of Sergy was under heavy bombardment, July 29 – 31, 1918.