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 First Lieutenant (Medical Corps) Charles W. Myers, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with 9th Infantry Regiment (Attached), 2d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, at Vaux, France, 1 July 1918. First Lieutenant Myers established, under heavy shell fire, an advance dressing station for the treatment and evacuation of men wounded in the first waves of the assault.