Edgar Kirk

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Edgar Kirk, Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Soissons, France, July 19, 1918. At a critical period in the attack south of Soissons when the infantry was held up by a German battery, Second Lieutenant Kirk pushed forward with one of his machine guns in the face of direct machine-gun and artillery fire and by cool and courageous direction of this gun put the battery out of action, thereby causing its capture and permitting the infantry to advance.