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 Charles A. Briggs (ASN: 1711811), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company D, 306th Machine-Gun Battalion, 77th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, in the Foret D’Argonne, north of La Harazee, France, 29 September 1918. Knowing that his commanding officers and three soldiers had been shot down and reported killed, Sergeant Briggs volunteered, obtained permission, and passed into a zone of heavy and continuous machine-gun fire to where his comrades lay, to render first aid and to rescue them if alive, but unfortunately he found his comrades dead.