Edmund P. Arpin
Home Town: Grand Rapids, WI
General Orders No. No. 47, W.D., 1921
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Edmund P. Arpin, First Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Gesnes, France, October 7, 1918. First Lieutenant Arpin volunteered to lead and led a platoon of forty-one men in an attack on Hill 269. Although all but four became casualties, this small group, under the leadership of Lieutenant Arpin, continued on its mission, took the hill, and held it for some time without hope of reinforcements.
