D. S. Macfarlan
Home Town: Ashfield, New South Wales, Australia
Headquarters: South West Pacific Area, General Orders No. 41 (October 7, 1942)
The President of the United States takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross to D. S. McFarlan, Paymaster-Lieutenant, Royal Australian Naval Voluntary Reserve, for extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations against an armed enemy as a Coast Watcher in action against enemy forces in the Southwest Pacific Area during the period from 1 May 1942 to 1 October 1942. (A complete citation of the actions for which award to this officer is cannot be published at this time for reasons of a military secrecy). NOTE: No evidence of a subsequent complete citation is available. Paymaster-Lieutenant MacFarlan was a Coast Watcher (Project Ferdinand). He manned an outpost on Gold Ridge overlooking Lunga Point on Guadalcanal for the period specified in his citation, reporting daily on Japanese activity.
