Edward H. Handy
Home Town: Washington, DC
General Orders No. 20, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Edward H. Handy, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at Binarville, France, September 30, 1918. Private Handy, with an officer and another soldier, voluntarily left shelter and crossed an open space 50 yards wide swept by shell and machine-gun fire to rescue a wounded soldier, whom they carried to a place of safety.
