Edmund R. Hampson
Home Town: Waterbury, CT
Distinguished Service Cross
World War I
U.S. Army
General Orders No. No. 125, W.D., 1918
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Edmund R. Hampson, Wagoner, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Trugny, France, July 22, 1918. Although painfully wounded by shrapnel, Wagoner Hampson courageously continued his duty of evacuating the wounded until exhausted from loss of blood.