John R. Walsh
Home Town: Woburn, MA
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. No. 59, W.D., 1921
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to John R. Walsh, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action in the Belleau Bois, France, October 23, 1918. Private Walsh with another soldier advanced carrying their machine gun to an enemy pill box and outflanked the enemy. For two days and nights without food or water, he remained in the pill box under heavy artillery and machine-gun fire and rendered invaluable assistance to the Infantry.