Thomas P. O’Connor
Home Town: New York, NY
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. No. 117, W.D., 1918
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Thomas P. O’Connor, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Villers-sur-Fere, France, July 31, 1918. After his platoon had moved from an open field in the cover of the wood Private O’Connor returned to the field under heavy machine-gun fire to rescue a wounded comrade and was killed at the side of the man he tried to save.