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 Hobart M. Bird (ASN: 139033), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Battery A, 147th Field Artillery, 32d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near St. Gilles, France, 12 August 1918. After being painfully wounded by an exploding shell, Sergeant Bird, with no thought of his own wound, assisted a more severely wound comrade to the first-aid station and then walked a distance of 1 and 1/2 kilometers over a heavily shelled road in quest of ambulance and stretchers.