Edmund Coolidge
Home Town: Concord, MA
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders 71, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Edmund Coolidge, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Belleau Bois France, October 23, 1918. Private First Class Coolidge left shelter and exposed himself to intense machine-gun fire, when he saw a soldier lying wounded in advance of our lines. He reached the wounded man despite the enemy fire, and dragged him back to a place of safety.