John L. Flynn
Home Town: Whiteside County, IL
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 46, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to John L. Flynn, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Consenvoye, France, October 9, 1918. Upon his own initiative Corporal Flynn advanced by short rushes under machine-gun and sniper fire to a point from which he successfully bombed and silenced an enemy machine-gun sniper who was holding up the advance of his company.