The President of the United States of America takes pride in presenting the Navy Cross (Posthumously) to Pharmacist’s Mate Second Class Frank George Welty, United States Navy, for extraordinary heroism on 6 June 1918, while serving as a Corpsman attached to the Fifth Regiment (Marines), 2d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, in action at the front in continuing to dress the wounded and in assisting in their evacuation under heavy enemy machine-gun and shell fire, in the performance of which duty he was killed.