Arthur L. Walters - War Hero

WALTERS

Posted By: S. Ferrall (email)
Date: 8/6/2004 at 06:14:20

DISTINGUISHED SERVICE CROSS
Arthur L. Walters (Army Serial No. 204377), sergeant, Company B, 2d, Ammunition Train. For extraordinary heroism in action near Beaumont, France, November 9, 1918. Sergt. Walters was in charge of a convoy of ammunition trucks which was halted in the town. An enemy shell struck the train and set one of the trucks on fire. Although knocked down by the explosion, Sergt. Walters quickly recovered himself and moved his convoy to safety, after which he returned and, jumping to the wheel of the blazing truck, drove to a place where it no longer endangered the lives of others, and extinguished the fire, saving both trucks and ammunition.

Residence at enlistment: Wadena, Iowa

-source: Official Register, State of Iowa 1921-1922, Twenty-Ninth Number, Military
Decorations of Iowans in the World War, pg. 372

-transcribed by Sharyl Ferrall