Edgar W. Akers
Home Town: Seattle, WA
General Orders No. 20, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Edgar W. Akers, Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Binarville, France, September 28, 1918. During the advance in the Argonne Forest, France, Lieutenant Akers, having been severely wounded, led his platoon in a successful assault on two machine-gun nests, thereby aiding the advance of his battalion sergeant.
