Thomas E. Wilder

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Thomas E. Wilder, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Baulny, France, September 28, 1918. After all of his squad but himself had been killed by the explosion of a shell, and after half of one hand had been carried away by a piece of shell, Corporal Wilder valiantly continued the combat until he himself was killed.