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 Burt T. Forbes (ASN: 1316258), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company I, 119th Infantry Regiment, 30th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Ypres, Belgium, 1 September 1918. While his patrol was acting as a flank guard, with orders not to fire unless absolutely necessary, Corporal Forbes detected an enemy patrol of eight men approaching and starting to set up a machine-gun. Crawling forward alone, he charged the enemy patrol and single-handed killed three Germans and routed the other five.