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 Mess Sergeant Herbert S. Taylor (ASN: 1459496), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company B, 138th Infantry Regiment, 35th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, at Cheppy, France, 26 September 1918. Sergeant Taylor, with a small detachment, volunteered to go to the assistance of several men of another company who, cut off from support, were being annihilated by enemy machine gunners and snipers. Pushing forward under fire, Sergeant Taylor alone crawled around to the rear of a building from which an intense fire was coming and returned with 18 prisoners.