Thomas J. O’Keefe
Home Town: Chicago, IL
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 59, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Thomas J. O’Keefe, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Verdun, France, October 4, 1918. Corporal O’Keefe voluntarily advanced alone into the woods to destroy an enemy machine-gun nest and in a single-handed pistol fight with eight of the enemy, succeeded in killing four Germans before he himself was killed in this unequal combat.