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 Sergeant Raymond Niles Moore (ASN: 1391910), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company B, 124th Machine-Gun Battalion, 31st Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Consenvoye, France, 10 October 1918. Sergeant Moore led his section of two guns to the aid of an infantry company. Failing in his attempt to establish an advantageous position, he alone took his gun 100 yards in advance of the line, exposed to violent machine-gun and artillery fire; and, setting it up, in an open field silenced the fire of enemy machine-gun snipers who had been inflicting heavy losses on our troops.