Joseph H. Roberge
Home Town: Manchester, NH
Status: KIA
General Orders No. 44, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Joseph H. Roberge, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near St. Juvin, France, October 18, 1918. Private Roberge displayed remarkable courage in laying and repairing a telephone line under such intense artillery and machine-gun fire that the line was ultimately abandoned. He was later killed in action.