Walter J. Bailey
Home Town: Lansing, IA
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders 78, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Walter J. Bailey, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near St. Juvin, France, October 12, 1918. Securing a captured German machine gun, Private Bailey operated it against the enemy from an exposed position until he was wounded and rendered unconscious by an enemy shell.