Edward Richard Warren

1st Lieutenant, U. S. Army

Distinguished Service Cross

GENERAL ORDERS:
War Department, General Orders No. 128 (1918)
CITATION:
The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross to First Lieutenant (Corps of Engineers) Edward R. Warren, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with 315th Engineers, 90th Division, A.E.F., near Fey-en-Haye, France, 12 September 1918.
First Lieutenant Warren was in command of a platoon of engineers and went over the top with the second wave of infantry. When the first wave was halted by severe machine-gun and shell fire early in action and all its officers killed or disabled, he led his men up to the first wave, reorganized the remaining effectives and led them across a valley and up a hill through severe flanking fire from German machine-guns. He was knocked down by the explosion of a shell, but, undaunted by murderous fire from the front and both flanks, he continued to lead his men on toward their objectives until he was shot down by a machine gun.