George P. Howe
Home Town: Boston, MA
General Orders No. 88, W.D., 1918
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to George P. Howe, First Lieutenant (Medical Corps), U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action on the Tower Hamlets Spur, east of Ypres, Belgium, September 28, 1917. Although wounded in the head on the morning of September 28 during the operation on the Tower Hamlets Spur, Lieutenant Howe displayed conspicuous courage and devotion in attending to wounded under very heavy and continuous shell fire, refusing to leave and continuing at his aid post until killed by a shell.
