William Edmond Sellers
Home Town: Chesterfield, SC
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders 81, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to William Edmond Sellers, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Brancourt, France, October 8, 1918. While his platoon was advancing Sergeant Sellers, on his own initiative, rushed ahead of the line and, flanking an enemy machine-gun post, shot one of the crew and bayoneted the other. His action saved his platoon from heavy causalities.