Ewing M. Taylor

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Ewing M. Taylor, Major, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Exermont, France, October 5, 1918. Major Taylor displayed marked personal bravery in engagements with the enemy at Cantigny and Soissons, in each of which he was wounded, and later, near Exermont, exhibited heroism and able leadership in advancing his machine guns under heavy fire, aiding the advance of the entire battalion, until he was himself severely wounded.