William P. Hyman

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to William P. Hyman, Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action during the capture of Seringes-et-Nesles, France, on July 29, 1918, by the organization of which he was a part. While holding a portion of the town with his platoon, he found that one of his men was missing. Being told that the man was wounded and lay beyond a hedge at the edge of the village, he unselfishly attempted to locate the wounded man, was caught in direct machine-gun fire, and killed.