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 Arthur Carroll Jones (ASN: 2712837), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company G, 313th Infantry Regiment, 79th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Montfaucon, France, 28 September 1918. While on his way to the dressing station for treatment, hearing a call for a volunteer to carry an important message from brigade headquarters to a regiment which was being pressed back, Private Jones volunteered and carried the message through a terrific intervening enemy barrage, and as a result of his courageous actions reinforcements arrived at a critical time.