The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pride in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross (Posthumously) to Sergeant Edwin W. Wiggins (ASN: 1445247), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company A, 128th Machine-Gun Battalion, 35th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Baulny, France, 29 September 1918. Sergeant Wiggins led a machine-gun platoon to a threatened portion of the line, under a heavy enemy barrage, walking back and forth along the front under heavy enemy fire, encouraging his men and directing the construction of emplacements. He also organized a group of infantrymen, who had become separated from their organizations, and put them in the line, supervising their entrenchments. This gallant soldier was killed just as this work was completed.