Sylvester Phillips
Home Town: Des Moines, IA
General Orders No. 44, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Sylvester Phillips, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Greves Farm, France, July 14, 1918. Private Phillips was acting as telephone operator at a gun in a detached position, when all the crew became casualties. With another soldier, he courageously continued to fire the piece under the heaviest bombardment, until it was struck by a shell and he was killed.
