Perry W. Wilt

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Perry W. Wilt, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Montfaucon, France, September 29, 1918. While performing his duties as company runner Private Wilt passed through an intensely shelled area on six different occasions and expressed a willingness to make several more trips, as the situation required. While making his last journey across the area he was severely wounded.