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 Captain (Infantry) Erskine Gordon, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with 319th Infantry Regiment, 80th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Gercourt, France, September 26 – 27, 1918. After the assaulting companies had passed over three machine-gun nests, which., not having been destroyed, opened heavy and effective fire, Captain Gordon reorganized scattered elements of his own company and of two others and fearlessly exposing himself to the fire of these guns as well as that of our own artillery, personally led an attack on three nests, capturing them with 50 prisoners.