Edward V. Monahan

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Edward V. Monahan, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Moirey, France, November 10, 1918. Wounded in the face by a machine-gun bullet, he refused to be evacuated, but continued to lead his platoon in a successful attack with the bullet still in his flesh. After securing first-aid treatment next morning, he learned that his company was advancing again, whereupon he returned and led his platoon in an assault on the Cote Romagne.