William Joseph Keating
Home Town: Texas, MD
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 20, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to William Joseph Keating, Captain, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Mallesville Farm, north of Verdun, France, October 27, 1918. While he was in command of the machine-gun company of his regiment, and every available gunner had been killed or wounded, Captain Keating personally manned one of the guns and kept it in operation until killed.