Martin J. Higgins
Home Town: New York, NY
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 99, W.D., 1918
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Martin J. Higgins, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Villers-sur-Fere, on July 30, 1918. Private First Class Higgins twice left shelter and went out into exposed places in front of the firing line, under heavy enemy machine-gun fire, and carried in wounded comrades.