Cecil O. Wylder
Home Town: Spokane, WA
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 15, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Cecil O. Wylder, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at Marcheville, France, September 26, 1918. Private Wilder volunteered to go through a violent bombardment to repair telephone lines and thereby succeeding in establishing communication with regimental headquarters in time to call for a barrage at a critical junction.