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 Paul Kisler Sinclair (ASN: 1312393), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company M, 118th Infantry Regiment, 30th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, at Vaux-Andigny, France, 11 October 1918. When the advance was checked by fire from enemy machine-guns and snipers in a sunken trench, Corporal Sinclair, crawling and jumping from one shell hole to another, under heavy machine-gun and artillery fire, opened fire with his automatic rifle and silenced both the machine-gun post and the snipers.