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 (Infantry) Christian Allen Schwarzwaelder, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with 21st Machine-Gun Battalion, 7th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Vieville. France, 1 November 1918. Lieutenant Schwarzwaelder remained in an exposed place administering first aid to a wounded officer and two soldiers throughout a heavy barrage of gas shells and high explosives after his platoon had withdrawn from the position. He had the wounded men removed to a less exposed place and remained with them until they were evacuated.