Edward Brooke Lee
Home Town: Silver Spring, MD
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. No. 3, W.D., 1922
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Edward Brooke Lee, Captain, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Balschwiller, Alsace, August 31, 1918. While in command of a raiding party against the enemy trenches near Balschwiller on the morning of August 31, 1918, Captain Lee led the advance through the enemy wire, being the last to quit the enemy trenches, personally assisting in carrying the wounded back through the enemy counter-barrage, and remaining all day of August 31 in a shell hole in no man’s land in order to assist all wounded to return to our line.