John Walter
Home Town: Germantown, MD
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 2, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to John Walter, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Verdun, France, October 10, 1918. During an advance on Rechene Hill, Private Walter, after being shot twice in the abdomen, captured a machine-gun by killing three of the enemy.