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 Second Lieutenant (Infantry) Clarence R. Christman, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with 2d Machine-Gun Battalion, 1st Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Soissons, France, 22 July 1918. By leading one of his machine guns in advance of the Infantry through a wheat field south of Soissons, Second Lieutenant Christman succeeded in obtaining a position of advantage from which he cleaned out an enemy trench and forced out of action a hostile machine gun which had been holding up the advance of our infantry.