Walter S. Sevalia
Home Town: Brule, WI
General Orders No. 37, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Walter S. Sevalia, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Breuilles, France, November 3, 1918. Corporal Sevelia swam the Meuse River with a cable for a pontoon bridge, under direct machine-gun fire. Later he carried a cable for another bridge over the Est Canal, across an open field covered by enemy machine-guns. Here he was wounded by a machine-gun bullet, but returned carrying a message of great importance.
