William H. Donahue
Home Town: Minneapolis, MN
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 50, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to William H. Donahue, Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Pexonne, France, on March 5, 1918. Lieutenant Colonel Donahue entered the quarry of Battery C, 151st Field Artillery, when it was under accurately adjusted shell fire, for the purpose of aiding the officers and men of that battery when he might with propriety have stayed away.