Cornelius E. Gallagher
Home Town: Bayonne, NJ
General Orders No. 35, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Cornelius E. Gallagher, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Grand Pre, France, October 28 – 29, 1918. Although painfully wounded in the shoulder, Sergeant Gallagher remained at his post for six hours, without reporting his wound. Even then he requested permission to remain, and, having obtained it, he encouraged his men to withstand a threatened counterattack. He left the field only when ordered to do so.
