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 Albert H. McArdle (ASN: 3559), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with 103d Ambulance Company, 101st Sanitary Train, 26th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, east of Belleau Wood, 18 July 1918. While giving first aid to a wounded soldier who had fallen in a wheat field in range of enemy fire Private McArdle received two machine-gun bullets through the thigh. In spite of his injury he continued at work until the soldier’s wounds had been properly dressed and endeavored to carry him out of danger, but fell exhausted from loss of blood.