Frank J. Kilfoyle

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Frank J. Kilfoyle, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at Varennes, France, September 26, 1918. Under heavy machine-gun and artillery fire, Sergeant Kilfoyle led an automatic rifle squad into Varennes and captured an enemy machine-gun nest, which had been inflicting heavy casualties on our forces, killing or wounding all the members of the crew, including a German major. Two days later he again displayed skillful leadership in organizing his platoon against an enemy counterattack, which was successfully repulsed.