Edward L. Dion

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Edward L. Dion, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action in defending his post during the Seicheprey engagement on the morning of April 20, 1918. Although completely surrounded by the enemy on several occasions, Private Dion fought them off with grenades and rifle fire, finally succeeding in driving them away, after which he carried a wounded comrade through a rain of shrapnel to a first-aid station and returned to his post.