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 Corporal Mathew S. Fox (ASN: 1224926), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Battery F, 104th Field Artillery, 27th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Consenvoye, France, 4 November 1918. While the battery position was being subjected to severe bombardment of gas and high explosive shells, Corporal Fox, in an effort to rescue two wounded comrades, extinguished a pile of burning camouflage which was used as a cover for the ammunition and fuses. While fighting the burning camouflage, the ammunition was exploded by another bursting shell.