Edmond W. Lynch

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Edmond W. Lynch, Captain, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at Fismette, France, August 10, 1918. Seeing two of his platoons being cut off by the enemy. Captain Lynch alone went to their rescue and engaged the enemy with his automatic pistol, killing several. He saved his platoons, but in so doing sacrificed his own life.