KELLY, JOHN JOSEPH - Medal of Honor Recipient
Rank and organization: Private, U.S. Marine Corps, 78th Company, 6th
Regiment, 2d Division. Place and date: At Blanc Mont Ridge, France, 3 October
1918. Entered service at: Chicago, Ill. Born. 24 June 1898, Chicago, Ill.
G.O. No.: 16, W.D., 1919. (Also received Navy Medal of Honor.) Citation:
Pvt. Kelly ran through our own barrage 100 yards in advance of the front
line and attacked an enemy machinegun nest, killing the gunner with a grenade,
shooting another member of the crew with his pistol, and returning through
the barrage with 8 prisoners.
This data was extracted from the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, U.S. Senate, Medal of Honor Recipients: 1863-1973 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1973)
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