William Roth
Home Town: New York, NY
General Orders No. No. 27, W.D., 1920
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to William Roth, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Mont-St. Pere, Marne, France, July 21, 1918. After his company had been halted by machine-gun fire from the front, Corporal Roth advanced ahead of his organization to a position exposed to heavy enemy fire, and opened fire with an automatic rifle on the enemy nest. He continued this fire until killed by heavy fire directed on him from the enemy machine- gun nest.
