Edward R. Wren

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Edward R. Wren, Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Haumont, France, September 22, 1918. After clearing the village of Haumont, Lieutenant Wren learned that a soldier of his command was lying either killed or wounded in the town. Disregarding the grave danger of perilous machine-gun fire, he returned into the town and, taking the dead body of the soldier, carried it several hundred yards in an endeavor to get back to our lines.