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 Sandy E. Jones (ASN: 1872473), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company C, 371st Infantry Regiment, 93d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Champagne, France, September 28 – 29, 1918. Corporal Jones was engaged as company clerk and was left behind to care for the company records. When he learned that all the company officers had become casualties, he immediately went forward, and, collecting the scattered elements of the company, reorganized them under most trying and difficult conditions.