Bernard R. Finnerty

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Bernard R. Finnerty, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Auberive, France, July 16, 1918. Sergeant Finnerty bravely attacked a group of the enemy without assistance in a bayou near, and drove them out, thereby saving his unit from surprise attack. While engaged in this courageous enterprise he was killed.