Waldo Thompson
Home Town: Opportunity, MT
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 44, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Waldo Thompson, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Exermont, France, October 5, 1918. Corporal Thompson voluntarily went forward in the face of a most destructive bombardment, and kept in repair the telephone line connecting the infantry and artillery, thereby assuring the close co-operation between these two elements.