John L. Casey
Home Town: Fairfield, CT
General Orders No. No. 125, W.D., 1918
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to John L. Casey, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Chateau-Thierry, France, July 23, 1918. After seeing three runners shot down while trying to cross an open field through violent machine-gun fire to establish liaison with a regiment five hundred yards away on his left, Sergeant Casey undertook the same mission and successfully accomplished it.
