Harvey Stickles

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Harvey Stickles, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action northeast of Chateau-Thierry, France, July 29 – 30, 1918. Several times during the night of July 29, 1918, and three times during the afternoon of July 30, 1918, Private Stickles left the shelter of battalion headquarters and went out into an intense bombardment to repair telephone lines connecting battalion and regimental command posts. He had several narrow escapes and was once thrown to the ground by the burst of an exploding shell, yet he continued to perform his important work after others had failed.