John Hussey
Home Town: Westfield, MA
General Orders 74, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to John Hussey, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near St. Juvin, France, October 16, 1918. After his platoon leader had become a casualty, Sergeant Hussey led his platoon forward with great bravery, under intense direct fire from a machine-gun nest, being killed while in the attack.
