Edward E. King

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Edward E. King, First Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Fleville, France, October 4, 1918. Assuming command of his company after the company commander had been wounded, Sergeant King reinforced it with remnants of other units, leading the entire command through perilous machine-gun and artillery fire to his objective. After having consolidated his position, he led a volunteer patrol against several machine-gun nests, which were harassing the position. Under violent fire from these guns, he cleaned out the troublesome nests, with small losses to his forces.