Edwin A. Elliott
Home Town: Elm Mott, TX
General Orders No. No. 15, W.D., 1921
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Edwin A. Elliott, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action north of Nantillois, France, October 12, 1918. An ammunition detail having failed several times to carry ammunition over a barraged zone, Sergeant Elliott voluntarily gathered and conducted an ammunition detail over 3 kilometers under extremely heavy artillery and machine-gun fire to the front line. In advance of his men he dragged a full box of Springfield ammunition for over a kilometer and distributed it to the front line. Later, he volunteered to carry, and carried, a message back to regimental headquarters.
