George W. Holly
Home Town: Mount Vernon, NY
Status: KIA
General Orders No. No. 107, W.D., 1918
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to George W. Holly, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Baccarat, France, June 23, 1918. Private Holly attempted to catch a hand grenade thrown into the window of his dugout by a German and did succeed in diverting it and thereby saving from death or injury a number of his comrades, but in the effort lost most of his hand.
