Daniel Richmond Edwards Edit Profile

Background

Edwards was born April 9, 1897 in Moorville, Texas and graduated from the Columbia University School of Journalism.

Education

Columbia University.

Career

Along with Samuel I. Parker, Edwards is considered one of the two most decorated United States infantrymen by American awards. Samuel Woodfill has more counting French awards) He also worked for Warren G. Harding"s presidential election campaign, and later served in World World War World War II He died October 21, 1967 and is buried in Cunningham Cemetery Royal, Arkansas.

Achievements

He enlisted in the United States Army in April 1917, on the day the United States entered World War I. He was sent to France as a member of the United States. 1st Infantry Division, where he performed the actions that won him the Congressional Medal of Honor and the Distinguished Service Cross. At the conclusion of the 1962 film The Manchurian Candidate, Frank Sinatra"s character reads Edwards" and Nelson M. Holderman"s son

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Born

April 9, 1897

Mooreville, Texas, Falls County, United States of America
Died

October 21, 1967 (aged 70)
Nationality
United States

Education

"Columbia University"

Awards

Medal of Honor Distinguished Service Cross; Medal of Honor

Medal of Honor citation Rank and organization: Private First Class, U.S. Army, Company C, 3d Machine Gun Battalion, 1st Division. Place and date: Near Soissons, France, 18 July 1918. Entered service at: Bruceville, Tex. Born: 9 April 1897, Moorville, Tex. G.O. No.: 14, W.D., 1923. Citation: Reporting for duty from hospital where he had been for several weeks under treatment for numerous and serious wounds and although suffering intense pain from a shattered arm, he crawled alone into an enemy trench for the purpose of capturing or killing enemy soldiers known to be concealed therein. He killed 4 of the men and took the remaining 4 men prisoners; while conducting them to the rear one of the enemy was killed by a high explosive enemy shell which also completely shattered 1 of Pfc. Edwards' legs, causing him to be immediately evacuated to the hospital. The bravery of Pfc. Edwards, now a tradition in his battalion because of his previous gallant acts, again caused the morale of his comrades to be raised to high pitch.

Medal of Honor citation Rank and organization: Private First Class, U.S. Army, Company C, 3d Machine Gun Battalion, 1st Division. Place and date: Near Soissons, France, 18 July 1918. Entered service at: Bruceville, Tex. Born: 9 April 1897, Moorville, Tex. G.O. No.: 14, W.D., 1923. Citation: Reporting for duty from hospital where he had been for several weeks under treatment for numerous and serious wounds and although suffering intense pain from a shattered arm, he crawled alone into an enemy trench for the purpose of capturing or killing enemy soldiers known to be concealed therein. He killed 4 of the men and took the remaining 4 men prisoners; while conducting them to the rear one of the enemy was killed by a high explosive enemy shell which also completely shattered 1 of Pfc. Edwards' legs, causing him to be immediately evacuated to the hospital. The bravery of Pfc. Edwards, now a tradition in his battalion because of his previous gallant acts, again caused the morale of his comrades to be raised to high pitch.

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