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Awards Received

  • Distinguished Service Cross

    Service:

    United States Army

    Rank:

    Corporal

    Regiment:

    7th Engineer Regiment

    Division:

    5th Division, American Expeditionary Forces

    Action Date:

    November 3, 1918

    War Department, General Orders No. 37 (1919)

    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 Corporal Walter S. Sevalia (ASN: 915300), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company F, 7th Engineers, 5th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Brieulles, France, 3 November 1918. Corporal Sevalia swam the Meuse River with a cable for a pontoon bridge, under direct machine-gun fire. Later he carried a cable for another bridge over the Est Canal, across an open field covered by enemy machine-guns. Here he was wounded by a machine-gun bullet, but returned carrying a message of great importance.