Alpheus Eligha Stewart

Private, U. S. Army

Distinguished Service Cross

GENERAL ORDERS:
War Department, General Orders No. 16 (1919)
CITATION:
The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pride in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross (Posthumously) to Private Alpheus E. Stewart (ASN: 2241347), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company G, 107th Infantry Regiment, 27th Division, A.E.F., east of Ronssoy, France, 29 September 1918.
Private Stewart, having been wounded in the head, advanced with fearless disregard for his own personal safety against an enemy machine-gun nest and succeeded in putting it out of action by bombing the gunners. He was killed immediately thereafter by enemy machine-gun fire.