Edward S. Hayes
Home Town: Waterbury, CT
General Orders No. 72, W.D., 1920
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Edward S. Hayes, Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Chevieres, France, October 19, 1918. Lieutenant Colonel Hayes, with a private acting as guide, voluntarily made a personal reconnaissance of the front lines and the Bois-de-Loges, near the Aire River, under heavy enemy fire, being severely wounded while making this reconnaissance.
