Sidney C. Graves
Home Town: El Paso, TX
Distinguished Service Cross
U.S. Army
Siberian Intervention
General Orders No. No. 15, W.D., 1923
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Sidney C. Graves, Major, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at Vladivostok, Siberia, November 18, 1919. In answer to a call to save noncombatants entrapped in the railroad station at Vladivostok, Siberia, Major Graves fearlessly entered a zone swept by intense machine-gun and artillery fire of Russian Government and insurgent forces, entered the station, and assisted in locating six noncombatants. He escorted them through the attacking troops to a place of safety.
Distinguished Service Cross
U.S. Army
World War I
General Orders No. No. 15, W.D., 1923
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Sidney C. Graves, Major, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action in the Bois-de-Fontaine, France, April 29, 1918. Having located an enemy machine gun in front of his position, Major (then captain) Graves, with three men, voluntarily crawled out to the position of the machine gun, in full view and within 100 yards of the enemy lines, shot the gunner, killed the rest of the crew with grenades, and returned with his party without a casualty.
