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 Corporal Theodore T. Gariepy (ASN: 261847), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company C, 125th Infantry Regiment, 32d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, east of Bois-des-Grimpettes, near Cierges, northeast of Chateau-Thierry, France, 1 August 1918. When two companies of another organization deployed in a field a violent artillery fire was directed on them, necessitating their moving into an adjoining wood, leaving their dead and wounded on the field. Corporal Gariepy, with a party of five men, left the woods and directed the work of carrying the wounded to a safe spot, where they could be given medical attention. He directed this work under heavy fire and with an utter disregard for his own life.