Walter W. Manton

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Walter W. Manton, Captain (Medical Corps), U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at Soissons, France, July I8, 1918. Accompanying his battalion in the attack, Captain Manton was with the second wave when he sustained a compound fracture of the right forearm from a bursting shell. He, nevertheless, refused to go to the rear, but remained on duty until the final objective was reached in the afternoon, attending the wounded and directing their evacuation.