Herbert S. Taylor
Home Town: St. Louis, MO
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 13, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Herbert S. Taylor, Mess Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at Cheppy, France, September 26, 1918. Sergeant Taylor, with a small detachment, volunteered to go to the assistance of several men of another company who, cut off from support, were being annihilated by enemy machine gunners and snipers. Pushing forward under fire, Sergeant Taylor alone crawled around to the rear of a building from which an intense fire was coming and returned with 18 prisoners.