Roy C. Wilson

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Roy C. Wilson, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Villette, France, September 6, 1918. Private Wilson voluntarily went forward under heavy enemy artillery fire and rendered first aid to wounded men of the 103d Engineers who were lying in an exposed position. He then crawled along a railroad track for about 300 yards, secured an ambulance which had been abandoned due to the intensity of enemy shell fire, and made three trips over a bridge under continual fire to an advanced dressing station, safely evacuating 14 of the wounded.