Joseph J. Gannon
Home Town: Cambridge, MA
General Orders No. No. 107, W.D., 1918
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Joseph J. Gannon, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at Boise Brule, near Apremont, France, April 12, 1918. Corporal Gannon displayed courage and self-sacrificing devotion to duty in action against the enemy, voluntarily going with one comrade to an advanced post in a communication trench and with automatic rifle holding back advance of the enemy through the trench until his comrade was killed and he himself severely wounded.
