Fred W. Edgar

The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Fred W. Edgar, Corporal, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Jaulgonne, France, July 24, 1918. Corporal Edgar placed five wounded men in a shell hole in front of the enemy’s machine-gun emplacements and protected them until nightfall with his rifle fire. He then went for aid and returned with stretchers to find that three of them had left the place. After helping to carry the two remaining to the rear, he returned to make further search, in which he was unsuccessful, but returned with one German prisoner whom he had captured.