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 Second Lieutenant (Infantry) Thomas Hopkins, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with 139th Infantry Regiment, 35th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, at Wesserling, France, 20 July 1918. Second Lieutenant Hopkins left his own post of comparative safety and voluntarily went through a heavy artillery barrage to rescue a private who was wounded and entangled in barbed wire. While engaged in this self-sacrificing effort he was killed.