Thomas J. Duffy
Home Town: Woburn, MA
General Orders No. No. 39, W.D., 1920
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Thomas J. Duffy, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action in the Bois-de-Wavrille, Troyon sector, France, October 2, 1918. While a member of a raiding party which penetrated to the enemy’s second line, Private Duffy located a machine gun which was about to fire on the rear of his platoon. Exposing himself to heavy machine-gun fire he crawled to a position of vantage and shot the gunner and captured the gun and two other members of the crew.
