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Awards Received

  • Distinguished Service Cross

    Service:

    United States Army

    Rank:

    Captain (Medical Corps)

    Regiment:

    7th Sussex Regiment

    Division:

    British Expeditionary Forces (Attached)

    Action Date:

    August 26, 1918

    War Department, General Orders No. 15 (1923)

    The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross to Captain (Medical Corps) George Patrick O’Malley, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with 7th Sussex Regiment, British Expeditionary Forces (Attached), near Mametz, Belgium, 26 August 1918. Under intense enemy machine-gun and rifle fire, Captain O’Malley went to the rescue of wounded British soldiers, dressed their wounds, and assisted in carrying them to places of comparative safety. While thus engaged one of the stretcher bearers in the rescue party was killed and another wounded. These men Captain O’Malley also assisted in carrying to the British dressing station.