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 First Class Henry A. Lait (ASN: 68386), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company G, 103d Infantry Regiment, 26th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near St. Remy, France, 12 September 1918. Private Lait, with comrades, advanced into the open and fired an automatic rifle on an enemy machine-gun emplacement, thereby drawing the machine-gun fire to themselves and enabling the platoon, which had been exposed to an enfilading fire, to flank the gun and put it out of action. Private Lait was killed by a machine-gun bullet during the action.