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 Second Lieutenant (Infantry) Edward R. Wren, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with 167th Infantry Regiment, 42d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Haumont, France, 22 September 1918. After clearing the village of Haumont, Lieutenant Wren learned that a soldier of his command was lying either killed or wounded in the town. Disregarding the grave danger of perilous machine-gun fire, he returned into the town and, taking the dead body of the soldier, carried it several hundred yards in an endeavor to get back to our lines.