Rudulph S. Ursprung

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Rudulph S. Ursprung, First Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Eyne, Belgium, November 1, 1918. Seeing a wounded soldier lying 150 yards in front of the line, after his company had withdrawn to a more secure position, Lieutenant Ursprung crawled through heavy fire and administered first aid to him. He then picked up the wounded man, carried him across the open, wading a canal through water waist deep, and succeeded in taking him to a place of safety.