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 Harry T. Schooley (ASN: 1736688), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company L, 311th Infantry Regiment, 78th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Grand Pre, France, 25 October 1918. After his platoon had fallen back under heavy shell fire, Corporal Schooley made a personal reconnaissance of an enemy machine-gun nest through a heavy barrage, killed one of the enemy gunners and drove off the others with hand grenades, thereby enabling his platoon to resume its position.