Edgar A. Runyan
Home Town: Black Rock, UT
General Orders No. No. 53, W.D., 1920
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Edgar A. Runyan, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action north of Exermont, France, October 9, 1918. Sergeant Runyan assumed command of a platoon after all other sergeants of the platoon had become casualties and led it through several successive attacks. Although wounded in the head by a machine-gun bullet he refused to go to the rear for medical attention but remained in command of the platoon until his company was relieved.
