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 Major (Medical Corps) Jackson S. Lawrance, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with 368th Infantry Regiment (Attached), 92d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, at Binarville, France, 30 September 1918. Major Lawrance, with two soldiers, voluntarily left shelter and crossed an open space 50 yards wide, swept by shell and machine-gun fire, to rescue a wounded soldier, whom they carried to a place of safety.