Edgar Blanchard
Home Town: Fayetteville, NC
General Orders 81, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Edgar Blanchard, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Bellicourt, France, September 29, 1918. Private Blanchard displayed marked personal bravery, capturing single-handed seven Germans whom he came upon in a trench and dugout. While taking the prisoners to the rear, he met a wounded soldier, and, preferring to return to the firing line, turned the prisoners over to the wounded man and rejoined his squad.
