Garrett Edwards
Home Town: Kittyton, TN
General Orders No. 15, W.D., 1919
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Garrett Edwards, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Soissons, France, July 19, 1918. When the infantry of which Sergeant Edwards was a part was held up by an enemy machine-gun nest which was inflicting heavy losses upon his platoon, he unhesitatingly went forward to ascertain its location and was killed while performing this courageous duty.
