Edward N. Thompson
Home Town: New York, NY
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 23, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Edward N. Thompson, First Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Mount Kemmel, Belgium, August 31, 1918. When the two platoons commanded by him met, with heavy machine-gun fire, Sergeant Thompson placed his men under cover, and single-handed went forward to reconnoiter his objective in the face of heavy shell and machine-gun fire.