Walter W. Klinger

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Walter W. Klinger, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at Bois d’Etrayes, France, October 23, 1918. Two of his companions having been lulled, Sergeant Klinger advanced alone upon one of the enemy’s strongest machine-gun nests and destroyed it with hand grenades. He was later killed while administering first aid to a wounded soldier.