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Awards Received

  • Distinguished Service Cross

    Service:

    United States Army

    Rank:

    Private

    Batallion:

    109th Machine-Gun Battalion

    Division:

    28th Division, American Expeditionary Forces

    Action Date:

    August 12, 1918

    War Department, General Orders No. 130 (1918)

    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 Private William Verdier (ASN: 1260361), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with 109th Machine-Gun Battalion, 28th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, at Fismes, France, 12 August 1918. Seeing a wounded soldier in an ambulance which had broken down while crossing a small bridge, in plain view of the enemy and under heavy artillery fire, Private Verdier went to his rescue, and assisted by another soldier, carried out the wounded man under intense shell fire 14 miles to a dressing station.