Michael Cooney
Home Town: New York, NY
General Orders No. 26, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Michael Cooney, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Villers- sur-Fere, Aisne, France, August 1, 1918. Corporal Cooney carried a wounded soldier 150 yards to safety through heavy machine-gun fire; then seeing his platoon about to advance, he returned under fire to the place where he had picked up the wounded man, secured his own rifle, and returned to join the advance.
