Louis C. Thedinger

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Louis C. Thedinger, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near St. Etienne, France, October 8, 1918. When his company had been stopped by heavy enemy machine-gun fire, Sergeant Thedinger left shelter for the purpose of interviewing two German prisoners. Learning from them the location and strength of the enemy’s position, he obtained permission to attack it, and, with a party of ten volunteers, went forward in the face of heavy machine-gun fire, flanking the machine-gun nest and capturing four prisoners and three machine guns.