Francis Considine
Home Town: New York, NY
General Orders No. 35, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Francis Considine, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near La Harazee, France, September 26, 1918. As acting corporal, Private Considine was in charge of a group which ran upon an enemy machine-gun nest in a swamp. Although wounded in one foot by a machine-gun bullet, and in the other foot by a grenade, he continued to hold his post and encouraged his men until assistance came.
