Sidney Holzman
Home Town: Chicago, IL
General Orders No. 32, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Sidney Holzman, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action in the Bois-De-Foret, France, October 10, 1918. After six runners had been killed or wounded in attempts to get through heavy shell fire with an important message from the regimental commander of the 39th Infantry, to the regimental commander of the 59th Infantry, Private Holzman, with Private James J. Snyder, responded to a call for volunteers and succeeded in delivering the message.
