Edwin Austin

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Edwin Austin, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Roncheres, France, July 30, 1918. Private Austin volunteered to go out in advance of our front lines and bring back wounded, who had been left there when his company was withdrawn. He made two trips, under heavy fire, bringing back wounded with the aid of another soldier, but was killed by machine-gun fire when he went out for the third time.