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 Private Ezra Ledoux (ASN: 6133545), United States Army, for heroism, not involving actual conflict with an enemy, displayed while serving with the Detachment Quartermaster Corps, while assisting in rescuing a woman from drowning at Waimanalo Beach, Oahu, Territory of Hawaii, 2 July 1933. Private Ledoux with three other soldiers, learning that a woman was being carried out to sea by the undertow and in danger of drowning, at the risk of his life went into the water up to his waist, and after being thrown down by the undertow succeeded in reaching the exhausted swimmer with a life preserver and bringing the woman ashore, and assisted in administering artificial respiration until the woman was revived.