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 Bert Lloyd Stewart (ASN: 40851), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company M, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2d Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Medeah Ferme, France, 3 October 1918. After his officer had been wounded by shell fire, Corporal Stewart, suffering from seven wounds about the knee from the same shell, took command of his platoon, led it in the assault to the objective, and established it in line.