Philip Garey
Home Town: South Orange, NJ
General Orders No. 32, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Philip Garey, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Ronssoy, France, September 29, 1918. Organizing a platoon of survivors of a battalion, Sergeant Garey led them in attack against the enemy. Under terrific shell and machine- gun fire, he advanced against the enemy machine-gun nest, and by the effective use of hand grenades, killed or wounded the crew and destroyed the gun.
