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 Private Herman James Forth (ASN: 2180322), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Medical Detachment, 341st Machine-Gun Battalion (Attached), 89th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, in the Bois-de-Barricourt, France, 2 November 1918. Private Forth in the face of enemy machine-gun fire, went to the aid of two severely wounded soldiers, carried them into a shell hole, dressed their wounds, and, while endeavoring to get the blankets from the packs of the wounded men, was struck in the head by a machine-gun bullet and instantly killed.