Sylvester Phillips - War Hero

PHILLIPS

Posted By: S. Ferrall (email)
Date: 8/2/2004 at 07:17:12

DISTINGUISHED SERVICE CROSS
Sylvester Phillips, private, Battery E, 10th Field Artillery. For extraordinary heroism in action near Greves Farm, France, July 14, 1918. He was acting as a 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.

Emergency address: Mrs. Mary Phillips, mother, 1117 Walker Street, Des Moines, Iowa.
Residence at enlistment: 1117 Walker Street , Des Moines, Iowa

-source: Official Register, State of Iowa 1921-1922, Twenty-Ninth Number, Military Decorations of Iowans in the World War, pg. 369

-transcribed by Sharyl Ferrall