Dudley M. Winthrop
Home Town: Brooklyn, NY
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders 71, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Dudley M. Winthrop, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at Sector Auberive, France, July 16, 1918. After repeated attempts to rescue a wounded soldier in a communication trench held by the enemy had failed, Sergeant Winthrop went out in the, face of heavy machine-gun fire, rescued the wounded man and dressed his wounds.