Edward Edmunds, Jr.
Home Town: Newton, MA
General Orders No. 44, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Edward Edmunds, Jr., Captain, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Verdun, France, October 27, 1918. An order having been received from division headquarters for an accurate report on the strength present in the front line, Captain (then First Lieutenant) Edmunds crawled from shell hole to shell hole in broad daylight and in plain view of the enemy who kept him under a continuous sniping fire from numerous machine guns. Going on under these conditions he personally counted every man in the front line of the battalion that he was commanding and made his report to the regimental commander.
