Wallis J. Moore

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Wallis J. Moore, Captain, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near St. Etienne, France, October 8, 1918. Captain Moore, although wounded by shrapnel, refused to go the rear, and proceeded to reorganize portions of three infantry platoons, whose officers had become casualties, thus protecting the right flank of the 141st Infantry. He went to the rear only after he had been severely gassed.