Walter Waldroop

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Walter Waldroop, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Verdun, France, October 9, 1918. Private Waldroop, with an officer and six other soldiers, drove off a violent assault of 50 of the enemy after a terrific pistol and grenade fight, thereby holding Hill 269, which was of the utmost tactical importance. During the fighting Private Waldroop was killed.