Edward N. Gillen
Home Town: Toledo, OH
General Orders No. 59, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Edward N. Gillen, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Hearne, Belgium, November 4, 1918. With two other soldiers, Private Gillen volunteered to rescue two wounded men, who had been lying in an exposed position on the opposite bank of the Scheldt River for two days. Making two trips across the stream, in the face of heavy machine-gun and shell fire, he and his companions succeeded in carrying both the wounded men to shelter.
