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 Private Robert L. Baldridge (ASN: 1540532), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Ambulance Company, 112th Sanitary Train, 37th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Hearne, Belgium, 4 November 1918. With two other soldiers, Private Baldridge volunteered to rescue two wounded men who had been lying in an exposed position on the opposite bank of the Scheldt River for two days. Making two trips across the stream in the face of heavy machine-gun and shell fire, he and his companion succeeded in carrying both the wounded men to shelter.