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 Sergeant Roy Emerson Murphy (ASN: 143488), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Battery A, 150th Field Artillery, 42d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Sommerance, France, 1 November 1918. When the powder dump near his gun was blown up by enemy fire and the fuse boxes were on fire, Sergeant Murphy, regardless of personal danger from an explosion, went into the re, extinguishing it. He thereby saved his gun from becoming unserviceable and kept it in action.