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 First Lieutenant (Infantry) Albert Bartow Simpson, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with 11th Machine-Gun Battalion, 4th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Nantillois, France, September 27 – 28, 1918. Lieutenant Simpson, though he was wounded, remained with his company, and by skillful arrangement of his machine-gun covered a retirement of the infantry. Next day he was again wounded, and, although urged by the surgeon to go to the rear, this gallant officer replied that there was too much work yet to be done at the front. He left to rejoin his command and had gone about half the distance when he was killed by a high-explosive shell.