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 First Class Harold F. Bedolfe (ASN: 568256), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company B, 4th Engineers, 4th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near St. Thibault, France, 5 August 1918. Sergeant First Class Bedolfe went forward, exposed to intense rifle, machine-gun, and artillery fire, and carried on his back, with the assistance of another soldier, a badly wounded comrade to a shell hole, thus saving the life of the wounded soldier. In the performance of this act Sergeant Bedolfe was severely wounded.