Walter Potter
Home Town: Jenkins, KY
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders 87, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Walter Potter, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at Bois-de-Harville, France, November 10, 1918. Private Potter volunteered and crawled out in the face of heavy enemy fire to attack a machine-gun nest. He killed the four members of the enemy crew, inspiring the men serving with him by his example of heroism.