John J. Doyle
Home Town: Peabody, MA
General Orders No. 46, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to John J. Doyle, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near St. Etienne- a-Arnes, France, October 4, 1918. Corporal Doyle, in charge of the runners, repeatedly carried important messages himself from company to battalion headquarters. He volunteered to deliver a message to an outpost through a hail of machine-gun bullets, and while performing this mission was wounded.
