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 Daniel W. Tuttle (ASN: 6548825), United States Army, for heroism, not involving actual conflict with an enemy, displayed while serving with Company C, 6th Engineers, in rescuing three soldiers from drowning near the Fort Lawton Military Reservation on 16 April 1933. When the canoe in which three soldiers were riding capsized in the rough water about 100 yards from the shore, placing them in imminent 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 swimmers with a life preserver and bringing the woman ashore, and assisted in administering artificial respiration until the woman was revived.