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 Malcolm Alexander Macauley (ASN: 73327), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company K, 104th Infantry Regiment, 26th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Bouresches, France, 20 July 1918. On 20 July Private Macauley repeatedly carried messages through a field swept by a terrific machine-gun fire. At one time he crawled to a brook through this machine-gun fire and returned with water to two wounded men, giving them first aid and assisting them to the rear.