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 First Lieutenant (Infantry) Clement P. Dickinson, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with 129th Machine-Gun Battalion, 35th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Charpentry, France, 27 September 1918. Lieutenant Dickinson voluntarily went forward alone through intense artillery and machine-gun fire to locate machine-gun positions and having accomplished this, returned and led his company forward to the attack, thus passing three times through this intense field of fire. On the following morning, having again volunteered to reconnoiter the new positions, he was instantly killed by a high-explosive shell.