Edward R. Stone

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Edward R. Stone, Colonel, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Medeah Ferme, France, October 3 – 10, 1918. Throughout the heavy righting near Medeah Farm Colonel Stone was at all times in the most exposed position, going over the top with his regiment four times in seven days, after all his battalion commanders had been killed, He repeatedly refused to go to a place of safety during the most severe bombardments, even after being seriously gassed.