Albert F. Cleary
Home Town: Gloucester, VA
General Orders No. No. 16, W.D., 1929
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Albert F. Cleary, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at St. Hilaire-au-Temple, France, on the night of July 21, 1918. While on duty as a town patrol during an enemy aerial bombardment, Private Cleary, disregarding his own danger, remained at his post and continued to make his rounds to see that all other troops were under cover until he was struck by an enemy aerial bomb and made the supreme sacrifice.
