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 Harland D. Morris (ASN: 2383980), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company H, 60th Infantry Regiment, 5th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Cunel, France, 15 October 1918. Advancing under intense artillery and machine-gun fire, Sergeant Morris displayed marked coolness and disregard of danger in personally clearing the right flank of his company of dangerous snipers. In so doing he was severely wounded but he nevertheless reorganized his detachment and held the position.