Edmund L. Zane
Home Town: San Francisco, CA
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 35, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Edmund L. Zane, Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near St. Etienne, France, October 3 – 9, 1918. With remarkable courage and daring, Colonel Zane led his battalion through heavy machine-gun and shell fire to its objective. On several other occasions he voluntarily visited the front, under most hazardous conditions, thereby acquainting his regimental commander with exceptionally important data.