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 Private First Class Charles Cameron, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company B, 3d Machine-Gun Battalion, 1st Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Soissons, France, 19 July 1918. When the Infantry of which Private Cameron was a part was held up by a trench occupied by Germans near Soissons, Private Cameron voluntarily ran around the trench to its rear, shot and killed one of the enemy, and captured the remainder.