Leo J. Dorey
Home Town: Burlington, VT
General Orders 64, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Leo J. Dorey, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Bois-de-St. Remy, France, September 12, 1918. Throughout a period of extreme shelling and unusually heavy machine-gun fire, Private Dorey volunteered and carried messages repeatedly from his platoon to his company commander. He conveyed information which resulted in the capture of two officers and 22 men of the enemy.
