Edwin Paul

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Edwin Paul, Private, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Ronssoy, France, September 29, 1918. Private Paul fearlessly ran in front of a tank under heavy machine-gun fire in order to drag a wounded officer out of the path of its advance. Shortly after, although himself severely wounded, he again exposed himself to heavy fire in order to render aid to a wounded corporal. While bandaging the corporal’s leg he was hit by a shell fragment and killed.