The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pride in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross (Posthumously) to Private Jacob B. Teiseth (ASN: 2291197), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Medical Detachment, 6th Engineers (Attached), 3d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, in the Claires-Chenes Woods, France, 20 October 1918. Private Teiseth advanced in the attack with the company to which he was attached, and worked constantly under heavy machine-gun and rifle fire, searching for wounded and superintending their evacuation. While engaged in this work in the open under machine-gun fire he was killed.