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 Holger N. Jager (ASN: 59770), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company A, 101st Infantry Regiment, 26th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, north of Verdun, France, 27 October 1918. Corporal Jager continued to carry messages after being wounded in the back by a machine-gun bullet, until he was again wounded by a bursting shell so seriously that his evacuation was necessary.