DONOVAN, WILLIAM JOSEPH - Medal of Honor Recipient
Rank and organization: Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army, 165th Infantry,
42d Division. Place and date: Near Landres-et-St. Georges, France, 14-15
October 1918. Entered service at: Buffalo, N.Y. Born: 1 January 1883, Buffalo,
N.Y. G.O., No.: 56, W.D., 1922. Citation: Lt. Col. Donovan personally led
the assaulting wave in an attack upon a very strongly organized position,
and when our troops were suffering heavy casualties he encouraged all near
him by his example, moving among his men in exposed positions, reorganizing
decimated platoons, and accompanying them forward in attacks. When he was
wounded in the leg by machine-gun bullets, he refused to be evacuated and
continued with his unit until it withdrew to a less exposed position.
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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