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 Frank Albert Burroughs (ASN: 2193111), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Machine-Gun Company, 118th Infantry Regiment, 30th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near la-Haie-Menneresse, France, 17 October 1918. When his platoon commander was wounded and all the noncommissioned officers had become casualties, under a heavy enemy barrage which fell upon his company, killing or wounding more than a third of the men, Sergeant Burroughs, then a private, reorganized the platoon under the heavy shell fire, directed the evacuation of the wounded, and then led the one remaining gun team forward, displaying remarkable coolness and initiative.