Edward F. Burden
Home Town: Long Island City, NY
General Orders 78, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Edward F. Burden, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near St. Juvin, France, October 11, 1918. Under heavy machine-gun and shell fire, Private Burden crossed and re-crossed the Aire River five times, administering first aid to forty wounded soldiers, until he collapsed from exhaustion.
