Edwin W. Wiggins

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Edwin W. Wiggins, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Baulny, France, September 29, 1918. Sergeant Wiggins led a machine-gun platoon to a threatened portion of the line, under a heavy enemy barrage, walking back and forth along the front under heavy enemy fire, encouraging his men and directing the construction of emplacements. He also organized a group of infantrymen, who had become separated from their organizations, and put them in the line, supervising their entrenchments. This gallant soldier was killed just as this work was completed.