Elmer A. Phillips
Home Town: Jasper, AL
General Orders No. 44, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Elmer A. Phillips, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Sedan, France, November 7, 1918. Private Phillips was a member of a patrol sent out to silence machine-gun nests, which were holding up the battalion’s advance. When the officer leading the patrol fell, mortally wounded, this soldier went to his assistance in the face of heavy fire from machine-guns only 100 yards away, remaining in this position until nightfall, though himself seriously wounded.
