Walter R. Hanson
Home Town: LaCrosse, WI
General Orders 81, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Walter R. Hanson, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Gesnes, France, October 7 – 8, 1918. When his battalion was forced to withdraw three times successively within forty-eight hours, Private Hanson each time went out in front of the line under intense machine-gun and shell fire, and rescued wounded men.
