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 Private Edgar Blanchard (ASN: 1880391), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company G, 120th Infantry Regiment, 30th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Bellicourt, France, 29 September 1918. Private Blanchard displayed marked personal bravery, capturing single-handed seven Germans whom he came upon in a trench and dugout. While taking the prisoners to the rear, he met a wounded soldier, and, preferring to return to the firing line, turned the prisoners over to the wounded man and rejoined his squad.