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 Private First Class Orville Ray Taylor (ASN: 253893), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Battery E, 42d Field Artillery, Coast Artillery Corps, near Suippes, France, on 14 – 15 July 1918. No other duties having been assigned to him, Private Taylor volunteered for service as a stretcher bearer, and working all night under the heaviest shell fire he carried wounded American and French soldiers to safety. While taking a severely wounded soldier by automobile to a hospital a shell burst near him wounding him but he continued on his mission and delivered the wounded man to the aid station.