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 First Lieutenant (Field Artillery) Robert Winthrop Kean, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with 15th Field Artillery, 2d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Vierzy, France, 18 and 19 July 1918. First Lieutenant Kean accompanied two successive waves of infantry in the attack on Vierzy and Villemontoire, 18 July exposing himself with almost reckless disregard of the enemy’s heavy shell and machine-gun fire, secured valuable information for the artillery as to the location of our own and the enemy’s lines, and personally took command of an isolated 9th Infantry machine-gun detachment that had lost its officers by heavy fire. Lieutenant Kean on 18 and 19 July actually accompanied three successive waves of the 23d Infantry, the 9th Infantry, and an attack by French infantry without rest. His endurance and courage were exceptional and most inspiring upon this occasion, and upon all other occasions of attack by the 2d Division.