William Begley

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to William Begley, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Charlevaux, France, October 2 – 6, 1918. When his battalion was surrounded in the Argonne Forest, October 3-7 Private Begley took charge of his squad, after the corporal had been killed and despite the fact that he was wounded in the arm by a machine-gun bullet, encouraged his men through all the attacks of the four days until he was killed October 6.