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 Corporal Rufus Z. Van Sickle (ASN: 6644842), United States Army, for heroism, not involving actual conflict with an enemy, displayed while serving with Company G, 19th Infantry Regiment, while assisting in rescuing a woman from drowning at Waimaualo Beach, Oahu, Territory of Hawaii, July 2, 1933. Corporal Van Sickle 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 swimmers with a life preserver and bringing the woman ashore, and assisted in administering artificial respiration until, the woman was revived.