The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross to Captain (Medical Corps) Walter Williamson Manton, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with 26th Infantry Regiment (Attached), 1st Division, American Expeditionary Forces, at Soissons, France, July 18, 1918. Accompanying his battalion in the attack, Captain Manton was with the second wave when he sustained a compound fracture of the right forearm from a bursting shell. He, nevertheless, refused to go to the rear, but remained on duty until the final objective was reached in the afternoon, attending the wounded and directing their evacuation.