Edgar E. Mcdowell

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Edgar E. McDowell, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Montbrehain, France, October 8, 1918. When the second wave of his company was confronted by two enemy machine-gun posts, which had been passed over by the first wave, Private McDowell, from a prone position, sniped at these posts and then rushed one of them. In so doing he was wounded in the wrist, but he continued on and succeeded in killing two Germans and capturing four others. The other post, containing 20 of the enemy, surrendered shortly afterwards.