John L. Clabby
Home Town: Lawrence, MA
General Orders No. No. 125, W.D., 1918
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to John L. Clabby, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Epieds, France, July 23, 1918. During the advance by his platoon upon machine-gun nests in Trugny Woods Sergeant Clabby observed a German machine gun on his right flank. He charged it single-handed in the face of its fire, killed the gunners, and destroyed the gun.
