Anthony Buonomo

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Anthony Buonomo, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Chevieres, France, October 19, 1918. Private Buonomo was voluntarily acting as guide on a reconnaissance with an officer, when the latter was severely wounded by a bursting shell. Having himself been struck by a shell fragment, he disregarded his own injuries, but immediately bandaged the officer’s wound and assisted him to the dressing station 800 meters away across an open field swept by shell fire. He then volunteered to return to division headquarters through intense artillery fire to report that the reconnaissance had not yet been completed.