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 First Class Omar Clark Cox (ASN: 1330030), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company A, 105th Field Signal Battalion, 30th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Ypres, Belgium, 16 July 1918. Sergeant First Class Cox volunteered and assisted a British soldier to reestablish communication lines, which the heavy artillery fire had made useless. Crawling through almost direct machine-gun fire, and making his way through barbed wire, he reached his point, where he remained for almost two hours. He made his way back to our lines, through an intense hand-grenade bombardment.