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 Second Lieutenant (Infantry) Henry Leslie Eddy, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Eighty-Second Company, Sixth Regiment (Marines) (Attached), 2d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, at Chateau-Thierry, France, 4 June 1918. Second Lieutenant Eddy, U.S. Army, while attached to 82d Company, 6th Regiment, U.S. Marine Corps, gave the supreme proof of that extraordinary heroism which will serve as an example to hitherto untried troops.