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 Dwight E. Lemon (ASN: 3107539), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company B, 310th Machine-Gun Battalion, 79th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Verdun, France, 8 November 1918. When his comrades, many of whom were wounded, were suffering from want of water, Private Lemon took their canteens and went 200 meters to the rear under heavy artillery and machine-gun fire, where he filled the canteens at a spring and returned through the intense fire under direct observation of machine-gunners and snipers.