Edwin B. Ives
Home Town: Great Bend, KS
General Orders No. 21, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Edwin B. Ives, First Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Blanc Mont Ridge, France, October 3, 1918. First Lieutenant Ives volunteered and carried an important message from battalion to regimental headquarters through heavy machine-gun and artillery fire and returned with an answer.
