Easter E. Keeper

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Easter E. Keeper, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Bois-de-Harville, November 10, 1918. Volunteering for the service, Private Keeper went out in advance of our lines, under heavy machine-gun fire, to cut lanes through wide belts of barbed wire. Despite the enemy fire, to which he was constantly exposed, he accomplished his mission, enabling the attacking waves to resume the advance.