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 Wagoner Edward D. Haskew (ASN: 571647), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with 33d Ambulance Company, 4th Sanitary Train, 4th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, between Septsarges and Fromereville, France, 6 October 1918. Wagoner Haskew was on duty with his ambulance, carrying wounded from a battalion aid station. He left with four stretcher cases and went about two kilometers south of Gercourt; while ascending a hill his ambulance was struck by a shell, he receiving multiple shell wounds of hands, left thigh, and feet. Although seriously wounded, he bravely remained at his post and continued on with his ambulance along a shell-swept road to the crest of the hill near an aid station, when he turned his ambulance off the road and sought assistance for his wounded.



