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 Sergeant Lyman Abbott White (ASN: 1316071), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company H, 119th Infantry Regiment, 30th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Bellicourt. France, 29 September 1918. When, with three other men, Sergeant White encountered a German patrol which outnumbered them five to one, he ordered his companions to keep the enemy down with fire from their Lewis gun. He then crept to the rear of the hostile patrol and attacked the Germans with bombs. At the same time his companions attacked from the front killing several of the Germans and capturing nine.