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 Private Theodore Frank Lee (ASN: 2260957), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company H, 362d Infantry Regiment, 91st Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Gesnes, France, 29 September 1918. When the advance of his battalion was held up by a machine-gun nest on a high ridge south of Gesnes, Private Lee and another soldier charged the emplacement, killing part of the crew and routing the others, capturing three heavy machine guns and one light Maxim gun, which they turned on the retreating Germans.