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 Major (Infantry) Enoch Barton Garey, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with 18th Machine-Gun Battalion, 6th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, in the Gerardmer defensive sector, France, 16 September 1918. Major Garey organized and led a combat patrol which penetrated the enemy lines and returned with several prisoners. Although exposed to machine-gun fire and later grenade fire from a superior number of the enemy, he conducted his patrol so as to accomplish its mission and returned to our lines with valuable information.