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 Harford D. Smith (ASN: 1284328), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company C, 115th Infantry Regiment, 29th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Sivry, France, 18 October 1918. Corporal Smith volunteered and led an automatic-rifle crew forward, silencing a machine-gun nest which was holding up the advance of his company. He worked his way forward through a barrage from four machine-gun nests, killing all the occupants of two nests and forcing the others to withdraw, thus permitting his company to advance.