Joseph Kanaley
Home Town: Orange, NJ
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 37, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Joseph Kanaley, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Verdun, France, October 11, 1918. Private Kanaley ran along a road that was being heavily shelled and secured a litter, returning with it over the same route, and assisted in carrying a wounded soldier to a first-aid station.