Eddie Carey
Home Town: Waterville, ME
General Orders No. 26, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Eddie Carey, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Bois-de-St. Remy, France, September 12, 1918. When his platoon was forced to halt by enemy machine-gun fire, Corporal Carey crawled forward with an automatic rifle under machine-gun fire, opened fire on the enemy’s position, killed two of the Germans, and captured the gun.
