Stuart S. Donaldson

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Stuart S. Donaldson, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Heurne, Belgium, November 4th, 1918. With two other soldiers, Private Donaldson volunteered to rescue two wounded men, who had been lying in an exposed position on the opposite bank of the Scheldt River for two days. Making two trips across the stream, in the face of heavy machine gun and shell fire and his companions succeeded in carrying both the wounded men to shelter.