b. 01/08/1895 Pontiac, Michigan. d. 27/07/1987 Clarkston, Michigan.
DATE OF MOH ACTION: 01/11/1918 Bantheville, France.
Harold A Furlong MOH
World War I Medal of Honor Recipient. Furlong served as a First Lieutenant, United States Army, 353d Infantry, 89th Division. He was awarded his medal for service Near Bantheville, France, on November 1, 1918. He also received the Croix de guerre with palms and was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor.
He joined the Michigan National Guard in December 1921, retiring as a lieutenant colonel in May 1946. Furlong graduated from the University of Michigan Medical College in 1924, and worked as an obstetrician in Pontiac, Michigan for over 50 years. During World War II, he served as an Army surgeon in Germany. In 1964, he founded the Pontiac Creative Arts Center.
MOH CITATION:
Immediately after the opening of the attack in the Bois-de-Bantheville, when his company was held up by severe machinegun fire from the front, which killed his company commander and several soldiers, 1st. Lt. Furlong moved out in advance of the line with great courage and coolness, crossing an open space several hundred yards wide. Taking up a position behind the line of the machineguns, he closed in on them, one at a time, killing a number of the enemy with his rifle, putting 4 machinegun nests out of action, and driving 20 German prisoners into our lines.
BURIAL LOCATION: OAK HILL CEMETERY, PONTIAC, MICHIGAN.
LOT 155, BLOCK 2, GRAVE 3
LOCATION OF MEDAL: MICHIGAN HEROES MUSEUM, FRANKENMUTH, MICHIGAN.
