Walter P. Donoghue

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Walter P. Donoghue, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Moulin-de-Charlevaux, in the Argonne Forest, France, October 6, 1918. Sergeant Donoghue was sent out on a patrol to investigate machine-gun fire from the left flank and to the rear of his company’s position, and was wounded in the left leg by shrapnel fragments. Upon reporting back to his company commander he refused to be evacuated, but insisted in taking an active and gallant part in four subsequent attacks made to reach a battalion of our troops who were cut off and surrounded by a superior force of the enemy.