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 Wallis H. Sturtevant (ASN: 1684164), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company D, 12th Machine-Gun Battalion, 4th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Chery-Chartreuve, France, 10 August 1918. Corporal Sturtevant voluntarily ran through a terrific shell fire into a burning ammunition dump, and rescued a badly wounded and burned comrade. The ammunition was exploded a few seconds after this heroic act was performed.