Thomas A. Upton
Home Town: Salem, MA
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 32, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Thomas A. Upton, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Belleau, France, July 21, 1918. Corporal Upton voluntarily crossed a zone swept by machine-gun and shell fire to aid wounded soldiers and was killed.