Edward D. Haskew

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Edward D. Haskew, Wagoner, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action between Septsarges and Fromereville, France, October 6, 1918. Wagoner Haskey was on duty with his ambulance, carrying wounded from a battalion aid station. He left with four stretcher cases and went about two kilometers south of Gercourt; while ascending a hill his ambulance was struck by a shell, he receiving multiple shell wounds of hands, left thigh, and feet. Although seriously wounded, he bravely remained at his post and continued on with his ambulance along a shell-swept road to the crest of the hill near an aid station, when he turned his ambulance off the road and sought assistance for his wounded.