James M. Tillery

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to James M. Tillery, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Montbrehain, France, October 8, 1918. On October 8, near Montbrehain, although wounded, Sergeant Tillery took charge of a platoon whose leader had become a casualty, leading it in the advance until he received another wound, which later proved fatal.