Howard P. Fitzgerald
Home Town: Springfield, MA
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 88, W.D., 1918
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Howard P. Fitzgerald, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at Bois Brule, near Apremont, France, April 10, 1918. Private Fitzgerald displayed coolness, courage, and the spirit of self-sacrifice in action, digging out a buried comrade while under heavy fire, persisting in his work until he received a mortal wound, of which he died April 11, 1918.