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 Corporal Frank Leslie Motley (ASN: 1458197), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company M, 139th Infantry Regiment, 35th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Apremont, France, 29 September 1918. When the enemy was counter attacking, having succeeded in planting machine-guns behind a smoke screen, he advanced with utter disregard of personal danger and jumped into an enemy machine-gun nest where there were about 15 Germans. Single-handed, he killed the gunner and loader, and engaged the remainder of the Germans until he received help from his platoon.