Michael Ruane
Home Town: Brooklyn, NY
General Orders No. 44, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Michael Ruane, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Villers-sur- Fere, Aisne, France, July 31, 1918. Private Ruane went to the rescue of two wounded men over ground so swept by machine-gun fire that two men had been killed and one wounded previously in the attempt; and succeeded in carrying the two wounded men safely to shelter.
