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Awards Received

  • Distinguished Service Cross

    Service:

    United States Army

    Rank:

    Sergeant

    Regiment:

    107th Infantry Regiment

    Division:

    27th Division, American Expeditionary Forces

    Action Date:

    September 29, 1918

    War Department, General Orders No. 20 (1919)

    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 Sergeant Edgar Magliore Sholette (ASN: 1210275), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company D, 107th Infantry Regiment, 27th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, east of Ronssoy, France, 29 September 1918. Sergeant Sholette went out into the open field under heavy shell and machine-gun fire and succeeded in carrying back to our lines a wounded soldier.