Walter W. Branson
Home Town: Evansville, IN
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 15, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Walter W. Branson, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Soissons, France, July 19, 1918. Upon finding six men who during the advance had become separated from their companies, he voluntarily organized them into a detachment, led an attack upon two machine guns, killed seven of the crew, and captured five.