Sidney H. Palmer

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Sidney H. Palmer, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near the Bois-de-la-Naza, France, October 5, 1918. With two other soldiers, Sergeant Palmer volunteered to crawl out under enemy machine-gun fire in an effort to locate three members of the platoon, who were missing after an unsuccessful attack on enemy machine-gun nests. Finding the body of one, they located another, who lay helplessly wounded, by calling out his name. As a result they drew increased fire from the enemy, but they courageously crawled 25 yards further toward the hostile positions and succeeded in bringing back the wounded man through the machine-gun fire to our lines.