John Connors
Home Town: Pawtucket, RI
General Orders No. 88, W.D., 1918
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to John Connors, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action on the river bank, near Chateau-Thierry, France, July 15, 1918. Corporal Connors commanded a squad that kept two machine-guns in operation to prevent Germans landing until all in the group were killed. He was the last to fall, being shot as he was in the act of throwing a hand grenade into a boat filled with the enemy.
