O'NEIL, RICHARD W. - Medal of Honor Recipient
Rank and organization: Sergeant, U.S. Army, Company D, 165th Infantry,
42d Division. Place and date: On the Ourcq River, France, 30 July 1918.
Entered service at: New York, N.Y. Birth: New York, N.Y. G.O. No.: 30,
W.D., 1921. Citation: In advance of an assaulting line, he attacked a detachment
of about 25 of the enemy. In the ensuing hand-to-hand encounter he sustained
pistol wounds, but heroically continued in the advance, during which he
received additional wounds: but, with great physical effort, he remained
in active command of his detachment. Being again wounded, he was forced
by weakness and loss of blood to be evacuated, but insisted upon being
taken first to the battalion commander in order to transmit to him valuable
information relative to enemy positions and the disposition of our men.
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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