The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Army Distinguished Service Medal to Brigadier General William Roderick Sample, United States Army, for exceptionally meritorious and distinguished services to the Government of the United States, in a duty of great responsibility during World War I. In Command of the Advance Section, Services of Supply, throughout the campaigns in France in 1918, by his skillful management of the supply of the Army, involving many emergency orders to be promptly met, General Sample showed himself to be, under those difficult conditions, an officer of great ability and resource.