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 Private First Class William E. Hurst (ASN: 280198), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company G, 126th Infantry Regiment, 32d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Juvigny, France, 27 August 1918. Upon being sent with a message under heavy machine-gun fire to a platoon commander, Private Hurst found the latter lying wounded. Unassisted, he carried the officer to a shell hole, bound up his wound, and returned to his company commander with important information.