Martin G. Griffin
Home Town: Fall River, MA
General Orders No. 37, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Martin G. Griffin, First Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near St. Etienne, France, October 6, 1918. After the major and adjutant of the battalion had been killed, Lieutenant Griffin took command of the battalion and led it in an attack over difficult terrain, under heavy machine-gun and artillery fire. He gained his objective and held it.
