The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 2, 1926, takes pleasure in presenting the Soldier’s Medal to Second Lieutenant (Infantry) Kenneth R. Dyer, United States Army, for heroism, not involving actual conflict with an enemy, displayed while attached to the 967th Company, Civilian Conservation Corps, in rescuing a woman from drowning in the Cour d’Alene River, near Kellogg, Idaho, 18 March 1934. A passenger automobile had plunged into the river and was carried about 125 feet downstream where the swift current lodged it on a sandbar. One of the passengers, a woman, while attempting to reach shore was swept further out in the stream. Lieutenant Dyer hearing cries for help, plunged into the cold, treacherous water and in total darkness, with only the woman’s cries for help to guide him, alone and unaided effected her rescue on his third courageous attempt.