Edmund M. Leary
Home Town: North Whitefield, ME
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. 46, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Edmund M. Leary, Colonel, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Stenay, France, November 10, 1918. Under heavy machine-gun and artillery fire Colonel Leary personally led two sections of machine guns and two platoons of infantry to the assistance of one of his battalions in order to protect its flank.