Edgar A. Schrader

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Edgar A. Schrader, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at Berzy-le-Sec, France, July 18 – 21, 1918. Attached to headquarters of the 1st Division as dispatch rider during the operations at Berzy-le-Sec, France, Private Schrader courageously and unhesitatingly passed through areas under steady artillery bombardment to carry messages whose delivery was of vital necessity to the success of the attack.