Philip A. Daley
Home Town: Hollister, CA
General Orders No. 32, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Philip A. Daley, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action northwest of Verdun, France, October 9, 1918. On two occasions, when intense machine-gun fire threatened his platoon, Private Daley voluntarily accompanied another soldier and attacked the enemy positions in the face of heavy fire, silencing the guns by effective rifle fire.
