Albert J. Considine
Home Town: Newton, MA
General Orders No. No. 30, W.D., 1921
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Albert J. Considine, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Vaux, France, July 13, 1918. Leaving a place of safety Corporal Considine voluntarily dashed through a dense enemy barrage to the rescue of comrades who were entombed in a signal station which had been demolished by shellfire. Despite the continuing enemy fire, he dug away the ruins, rescued the wounded, and assisted them to first aid.
