Medal of Honor
July 18, 1918
near Soissons, France
- Rank at action
- Private First Class
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- World War I
- Unit or command
- Company C, 3d Machine Gun Battalion, 1st Division
- Presentation date
- December 31, 1923
The Citation
Sources ↓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.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Daniel Richmond Edwards — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-26
current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison
Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
- Award ID
- MOH-AW-000304
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-26
- Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
- 14
- Later or highest recorded rank
- Major
- Entered service at
- Bruceville, Tex.
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- de88078667837f63ba6a17a00f6e090b3ddbe125704ca6194fd2ad3a2997002a
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
Private First Class is retained as the action rank and Major as the later/profile rank.