Anthony J. Chirafisi
Home Town: High Cliff, WI
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 37, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Anthony J. Chirafisi, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Brandeville, France, November 8, 1918. Sergeant Chirafisi volunteered to establish liaison between the battalions of his regiment. He crossed a valley under heavy artillery fire and climbed for over an hour on a hill exposed to steady machine-gun fire, accomplished his mission, and returned by the same route.