Benjamin P. Wiedmaier
Home Town: Clarksdale, MO
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 32, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Benjamin P. Wiedmaier, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Grand Ballois Farm, France, July 14 – 15, 1918. During a heavy gas and shell bombardment, Private Wiedmaier repeatedly volunteered and delivered messages over routes other than his own, when the runners assigned to those routes had been killed or wounded.