George L. Wiles
Home Town: New Market, TN
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 35, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to George L. Wiles, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Bellicourt, France, September 29, 1918. After his own gun had been knocked out, Private Wiles assisted another soldier in breaking up an enemy machine-gun nest and turning the captured gun on the enemy, firing about a thousand rounds. When this gun jammed he procured grenades and the rifle of a dead soldier and continued on to the objective.