Edward V. Armstrong

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Edward V. Armstrong, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Seicheprey, France, March 28, 1918. Private Armstrong was a member of a patrol consisting of an officer and four men who with great daring entered a dangerous portion of the enemy trenches where they surrounded a party nearly double their own strength, drove off an enemy rescuing party and made their way to our lines with four prisoners from whom valuable information was obtained.