Thomas J. Duffy
Home Town: Woburn, MA
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. No. 39, W.D., 1920
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Thomas J. Duffy, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action in the Bois-de-Wavrille, Troyon sector, France, October 2, 1918. While a member of a raiding party which penetrated to the enemy’s second line, Private Duffy located a machine gun which was about to fire on the rear of his platoon. Exposing himself to heavy machine-gun fire he crawled to a position of vantage and shot the gunner and captured the gun and two other members of the crew.