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 Corporal Harold R. Forster (ASN: 1213977), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company C, 108th Infantry Regiment, 27th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, east of Ronssoy, France, 29 September 1918. During the operations against the Hindenburg line, when the advance of his company was held up by an enemy machine-gun nest, Corporal Forster crawled forward to a small shell hole, killed four of the German machine gunners with a Lewis gun and put their gun out of action, thereby permitting the advance to continue. In accomplishing this courageous act, he was seriously wounded.