Edward A. Pierce

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Edward A. Pierce, Private First Class, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action during the attack on the Hindenburg line, in France, September 29, 1918. While a member of a Lewis gun squad which attacked a superior force of the enemy, Private Pierce was severely wounded in the ankle. He refused to be evacuated, and although wounded so that he was hardly able to walk, he continued on in the advance, inflicting severe casualties on the enemy, until he was killed by enemy fire.