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 Ernest Ellsworth Rudolph (ASN: 1630524), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company C, 110th Infantry Regiment, 28th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Varennes, France, 26 September 1918. Acting voluntarily, Corporal Rudolph and two other soldiers went out under heavy artillery and machine-gun fire and attacked an enemy machine-gun nest, killing four of the crew and capturing eleven prisoners, together with the machine gun.