Pietro De Berardinas
Home Town: Highlandtown, MD
General Orders No. 15, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Pietro De Berardinas, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Verdun, France, October 17, 1918. In the Bois-de-Consenvoye, east of the Meuse, Private De Berardinas, acting in the capacity of a runner, carried three successive messages through continuous and heavy barrages of both our own and the enemy’s artillery, traversing a path where two men had previously been killed by the same barrage.
