Joseph W. Slate

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Joseph W. Slate, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Exermont, France, October 2 – 11, 1918. Corporal Slate volunteered and maintained a telephone line which ran through thick undergrowth and barbed-wire entanglements to an advanced observation post. Despite heavy artillery and direct machine-gun fire, Corporal Slate kept the line in operation for many hours without relief.