Veteran of WW1
1st Lt., Co I, 150th Infantry, 38th Division
Awarded the Croix de Guerre with gold star (France) "Lewis, Phillip, driver in Sanitary Section Unit 1 since March, 1916, being in the localities subjected to a violent bombardment, on June 15, 1916, displayed the greatest gallantry in caring for the wounded and refusing to retire except upon the formal order of the physicians, after he had taken in his car all of the wounded it would hold and driven them under the best possible conditions to the sanitary station to which he was directed."
Battle: Meuse-Argonne
Also served in the Army of Occupation
Served in WWII
Major, 150th Infantry, 38th Division, 798th Military Police; Military Government
Awarded:
Bronze Star
Chevalier Legion of Honor
Croix de Guerre
Italian Order of the Crown
Graduate of Harvard University 1917
Veteran of WW1
1st Lt., Co I, 150th Infantry, 38th Division
Awarded the Croix de Guerre with gold star (France) "Lewis, Phillip, driver in Sanitary Section Unit 1 since March, 1916, being in the localities subjected to a violent bombardment, on June 15, 1916, displayed the greatest gallantry in caring for the wounded and refusing to retire except upon the formal order of the physicians, after he had taken in his car all of the wounded it would hold and driven them under the best possible conditions to the sanitary station to which he was directed."
Battle: Meuse-Argonne
Also served in the Army of Occupation
Served in WWII
Major, 150th Infantry, 38th Division, 798th Military Police; Military Government
Awarded:
Bronze Star
Chevalier Legion of Honor
Croix de Guerre
Italian Order of the Crown
Graduate of Harvard University 1917
Gravesite Details
burial: MAR 13,1956
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