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 (Corps of Engineers) Walter King Wilson, Jr. (ASN: 0-17512), United States Army, for heroism, not involving actual conflict with an enemy, displayed at Fort Benning, Georgia, on the night of 9 – 10 May, 1932. While on maneuvers in a remote part of the reservation, Private F. Kindon Schaefer, Company A, 7th Engineers, was bitten by a rattlesnake. Lieutenant Wilson and another officer, knowing that medical aid was not immediately available, and believing that the soldier was in immediate danger, without regard to the consequent danger to themselves, opened the wound with a razor blade and sucked out the venom-infected blood.