Bernard F. Sweeney, Jr.
Home Town: Philadelphia, PA
General Orders No. 37, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Bernard F. Sweeney, Jr., Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Brabant, France, October 30, 1918. On the night of October 31, and November 1, Sergeant Sweeney made a dozen trips to repair telephone wire broken by the continuous shelling of the area. Early the next morning he was wounded while still in the performance of his duty.
