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 Elsworth O. Terrill (ASN: 1277360), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company H, 113th Infantry Regiment, 29th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, during the action in the vicinity of Hagenbach, Alsace, east of Belfort, France, 21 August 1918. When his right hand and arm were badly mangled by the explosion of a grenade during an enemy raid into our lines, Corporal Terrill placed his injured hand in his trousers pocket to support it, went over the top with his comrades and joined in the pursuit of the defeated and retreating Germans, throwing hand grenades with his left hand as he followed them back to their own lines.