VILLAGE OF LARCHMONT WORLD WAR MEMORIAL PLAQUE

MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENT DONALD M. CALL IS LISTED ON THIS TABLET

Rank and organization: Corporal, U.S. Army, 344th Battalion, Tank Corps. Place and date: At Varennes, France; September 26, 1918. Entered service at: France. Birth: November 29, 1892; New York, New York. General Orders: War Department, General Orders No. 13 (January 18, 1919).

Citation:
During an operation against enemy machinegun nests west of Varennes, Corporal Call was in a tank with an officer when half of the turret was knocked off by a direct artillery hit. Choked by gas from the high-explosive shell, he left the tank and took cover in a shell hole 30 yards away. Seeing that the officer did not follow, and thinking that he might be alive, Corporal Call returned to the tank under intense machinegun and shell fire and carried the officer over a mile under machinegun and sniper fire to safety.