Guy S. Brewer

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Guy S. Brewer, Major, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near St. Mihiel, France, September 12, 1918. Major Brewer personally led the assaulting wave of his battalion at St. Mihiel, continuing to the enemy’s wire, despite the fact that he was wounded by a shell fragment. While directing his men through the wire entanglements his right arm was shattered by a machine-gun bullet, but he remained on the field for more than an hour directing the disposition of his forces and giving careful directions to the succeeding commander.