Patrick Sweeney
Home Town: Chicago, IL
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 32, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Patrick Sweeney, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Abaucourt, France, November 9, 1918. Private Sweeney voluntarily advanced through intense artillery and machine-gun fire into the ruins of Abaucourt to locate an enemy machine-gun nest. He was killed by shell fire after having reached a position in the enemy’s trenches.