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 Harry B. Clementson (ASN: 3130713), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company A, 305th Infantry Regiment, 77th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Carefour-de-Meurrissons, France, 27 September 1918. After his company had taken shelter from the enfilading machine-gun and trench-mortar fire, Private Clementson, accompanied by two other soldiers, crawled out, in the face of a machine-gun barrage, to the aid of wounded comrades, thus saving the lives of at least two of his companions.