James G. Walsh

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to James G. Walsh, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action in the Belleau Wood, France, July 16 – 18, 1918. While out on a working party and fired on by the enemy, Private Walsh cared for the wounded. Two days later, when his platoon was ordered to attack he was the first man over the top. A machine-gun nest delivering a violent enfilading fire from the opposite side of a railroad cut Private Walsh ran across the track alone to put it out of action and fell wounded before the gun.