Edward Rischmann
Home Town: Newark, NJ
General Orders No. 37, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Edward Rischmann, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Grand Pre, France, October 23, 1918. Private Rischmann was a member of an assaulting party which stormed and captured the Citadel at Grand-Pre. He scaled the wall and alone entered a dugout, from which he captured 45 Germans, guarding them until assistance arrived.
