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 Major (Medical Corps) George H. Simmons, 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, while serving with the Medical Section, Officer’s Reserve Corps. By his thorough knowledge of the medical profession and by his great esteem therein, together with his whole-hearted devotion to his task, Major Simmons rendered services of a signal worth in the procurement of physicians and surgeons for the Medical Corps of the Army and in his able advising of the War Department upon the qualifications of that great body of the medical profession who entered the Army.