The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pride in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross (Posthumously) to Private Malcolm Troop Robertson (ASN: 88640), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Headquarters Company, 165th Infantry Regiment, 42d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, at Bois Coles, north of the River Ourcq, near Villers-sur-Fere, France, 30 July 1918. In the absence of his platoon commander, who had gone to an advanced position for observation, and after his section sergeant had been wounded and evacuated, Private Robertson assumed leadership of his Stokes mortar crew; when called upon by his platoon commander for Stokes mortar fire to repel an assault by the enemy, who were advancing 100 yards away, he with his crew responded so effectively as to repulse the enemy with heavy losses. He was killed by an enemy shell while consolidating a position and rallying his men to repel the assault.