Michael F. Connelly
Home Town: Lansing, MI
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 37, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Michael F. Connelly, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Romagne, France, October 10 – 13, 1918. Private Connelly, acting as battalion runner, repeatedly crossed the valley between hill 258 and Lacote Dame Marie, a distance of 500 yards, swept continually by machine-gun and sniper fire.