The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pride in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross (Posthumously) to Second Lieutenant (Infantry) Charles Bowen Busey, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with 310th Infantry Regiment, 78th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, in the Bois-des-Loges, France, 1 November 1918. While on duty as instructor at the school at Langres, France, Lieutenant Busey was sent to the 78th Division for a week of observation work, where on his own request, he was attached to a front-line battalion; and again, on his own request, was assigned to duty with a company. During the attack on the enemy strong point in the Bois-des-Loges, Lieutenant Busey unhesitatingly and with utmost gallantry led a patrol of four men through a heavy artillery and machine-gun fire toward the position of a machine-gun nest which was holding up the company’s advance, when he was killed by a hostile hand grenade within a few yards of his objective.