William C. Coughlin
Home Town: Aurora, NY
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 35, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to William C. Coughlin, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at Grand Pre, France, October 23, 1918. Private First Class Coughlin volunteered and maintained liaison with a company which had been cut off from the rest of the battalion, making several trips across open ground for 150 yards under intense machine-gun fire.