John Duly
Home Town: Bridgeport, CT
General Orders No. 32, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to John Duly, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Jaulny, France, November 8, 1918. When one of his men became entangled in the barbed wire, Sergeant Duly alone went to his rescue under heavy fire. He then went forward, alone, through intense artillery and machine-gun fire to attack a machine-gun nest. While returning to our lines, he fell exhausted from fatigue and shell shock.
