Thomas E. Fitzsimmons
Home Town: South Orange, NJ
General Orders No. 44, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Thomas E. Fitzsimmons, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Landres-et-St. Georges, France, October 15, 1918. Running forward to a slope just above the enemy’s wire, Sergeant Fitzsimmons, although exposing himself to direct fire of all kinds, was able to conduct such an effective fire with his trench mortars, that a threatened enemy counterattack was broken up.
