Walter Griffith
Home Town: Hitchins, KY
General Orders No. 44, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Walter Griffith, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action in the Argonne Forest, France, October 4, 1918. Private Griffith was delivering a message to the front line when he encountered an enemy machine-gun firing on our front line troops from the rear. He crawled to the emplacement and silenced the fire from the gun by killing both gunners.
