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 Lloyd Eller (ASN: 654049), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company B, 2d Engineers, 2d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Mouzon, France, 10 November 1918. During the construction of a floating footbridge across the Meuse River the engineers were subjected to violent machine-gun and small arms fire at short range. Private Eller was undismayed by the enemy’s fire and the fact that most of the men around him had fallen. When the bridge broke, he lashed it together and then despite his drenched condition from the icy water volunteered as bridgehead guard on the enemy’s side of the river.