Philip W. Prevost

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Philip W. Prevost, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Eclisfontaine, France, September 28, 1918. A combat group had worked its way far ahead, when the remainder of the line was held up by heavy bursts of machine- gun fire, and the order to dig in and hold the position was given. Private Prevost volunteered to carry the message through heavy machine-gun fire to the combat group, which was still advancing. He delivered the order and returned with information which enabled the battalion to make dispositions for the capture of the line of enemy machine- gun nests and the saving of the combat group.