Sandy E. Jones
Home Town: Taft, SC
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 46, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Sandy E. Jones, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Champagne, France, September 28 – 29, 1918. Corporal Jones was engaged as company clerk and was left behind to care for the company records. When he learned that all the company officers had become casualties, he immediately went forward, and, collecting the scattered elements of the company, reorganized them under most trying and difficult conditions.